How to format your references using the International Journal of Quality Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Quality Innovation. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Angerer P (2004) Graduate journal: at the crossroads. Nature 427:270

A journal article with 2 authors

Golder SA, Macy MW (2011) Diurnal and seasonal mood vary with work, sleep, and daylength across diverse cultures. Science 333:1878–1881

A journal article with 3 authors

Levy ED, Landry CR, Michnick SW (2010) Cell signaling. Signaling through cooperation. Science 328:983–984

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang H-X, Liu M, Bu X, Zhang J (2014) Zeolitic BIF crystal directly producing noble-metal nanoparticles in its pores for catalysis. Sci Rep 4:3923

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Al-Shuhail AA, Al-Dossary SA, Mousa WA (2017) Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Engelhardt H, Kohler H-P, Fürnkranz-Prskawetz A (2009) Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, 1st ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kihara K, Fujii Y, Saito K, et al (2015) Gasless Two-Port Access RoboSurgeon Retroperitoneoscopic Radical Nephroureterectomy. In: Kihara K (ed) Gasless Single-Port RoboSurgeon Surgery in Urology. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 65–84

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Quality Innovation.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Engineered Cartilage to Reconstruct Damaged Noses. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/engineered-cartilage-reconstruct-damaged-noses/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2005) Social Security Administration: Additional Actions Needed in Ongoing Efforts to Improve 800-Number Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tseng YH-H (2008) Motivation of participation in inservice training based on problem solving: A modified Delphi study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Koblin J (2016) Request to Alter Opening Ceremony Collides With Tradition. New York Times B12

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Quality Innovation
Abbreviation	Int. J. Qual. Innov.
ISSN (online)	2363-7021
Scope