How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Society Interface citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 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	Download the output style file
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

Krider PE. 2003 Atmospheric science. Deciphering the energetics of lightning. Science 299, 669–670.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lazzaro BP, Rolff J. 2011 Immunology. Danger, microbes, and homeostasis. Science 332, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gómez JM, Verdú M, Perfectti F. 2010 Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life. Nature 465, 918–921.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Grigorenko A, Bending S, Tamegai T, Ooi S, Henini M. 2001 A one-dimensional chain state of vortex matter. Nature 414, 728–731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith C, Meeking D. 2013 How to Succeed at the Medical Interview. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Li Y, editor. 2015 Organic Optoelectronic Materials. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Herfort B, de Albuquerque JP, Schelhorn S-J, Zipf A. 2014 Exploring the Geographical Relations Between Social Media and Flood Phenomena to Improve Situational Awareness. In Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place (eds J Huerta, S Schade, C Granell), pp. 55–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015 Clumps Of Alzheimer’s-Associated Molecule Found In Young Adult Brains. IFLScience. See https://www.iflscience.com/brain/clumps-alzheimers-associated-molecule-found-young-adult-brains/ (accessed on 30 October 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. 1998 FCC: Geographic Partitioning and Spectrum Disaggregation for the 220-222 MHz Service.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adrian DE. 2009 School scheduling models and the achievement of at-risk students: A causal-comparative study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Brantley B. 2017 Theater; The Class Divide, And Its Lessons. New York Times, 28 June. , AR2.

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	Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Abbreviation	J. R. Soc. Interface
ISSN (print)	1742-5689
ISSN (online)	1742-5662
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials