How to format your references using the Achievements in the Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Achievements in the Life Sciences. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Conley, D.J., 2012. Ecology: save the Baltic Sea. Nature 486, 463–464.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillips, G.N., Evans, K.A., 2004. Role of CO2 in the formation of gold deposits. Nature 429, 860–863.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kay, J.N., Chu, M.W., Sanes, J.R., 2012. MEGF10 and MEGF11 mediate homotypic interactions required for mosaic spacing of retinal neurons. Nature 483, 465–469.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Esnault, C., Heidmann, O., Delebecque, F., Dewannieux, M., Ribet, D., Hance, A.J., Heidmann, T., Schwartz, O., 2005. APOBEC3G cytidine deaminase inhibits retrotransposition of endogenous retroviruses. Nature 433, 430–433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch, I., Turpin, S., Johnston, B., MacLullich, A., Losman, E., 2014. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nakata, K., Sugisaki, H. (Eds.), 2015. Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Simic, Z., 2015. Wog Westie Feminist, in: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (Eds.), Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 39–47.

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 Achievements in the Life Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Gigantic Landslide Was Bigger Than Rhode Island [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1973. Schools Closed Since l969 as a Result of Actions To Promote Racial Balance (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Kazadi, M.M., 2013. Use of Data Fusion and SPC in Vibrations Detection (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. Ideology Seems to Doom Cabinet Contender. New York Times B20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Conley, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Conley, 2012; Phillips and Evans, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Phillips and Evans, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Esnault et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Achievements in the Life Sciences
ISSN (print)	2078-1520
Scope