How to format your references using the Acta Amazonica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Amazonica. 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

Schmollinger, J. 2002. Gaining a lot from translation. Nature 418: 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, D.J.; Wilson, M.A. 2006. Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 440: 680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Panday, V.; Tiest, W.M.B.; Kappers, A.M.L. 2014. Integration of length and curvature in haptic perception. Scientific reports 4: 3856.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McDaniell, R.; Lee, B.-K.; Song, L.; Liu, Z.; Boyle, A.P.; Erdos, M.R.; et al. 2010. Heritable individual-specific and allele-specific chromatin signatures in humans. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley, R.H.V.; Tinker, P.B. 2015. The Oil Palm. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, .

An edited book

Al-Khalili, J.; Roeckl, E. 2006. The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. II. In: Al-Khalili, J.; Roeckl, E. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, X, 242 p. 112 illus., 21 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Topaloff, L.K. 2013. Bulgaria. In: Biehl, H.; Giegerich, B.; Jonas, A. (Eds.), Strategic Cultures in Europe: Security and Defence Policies Across the Continent, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, p.43–54.

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 Acta Amazonica.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016. A New Way To Model The Minutes After The Big Bang. IFLScience. (https://www.iflscience.com/physics/a-new-way-to-model-the-minutes-after-the-big-bang/). Accessed on 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. 2012. Information Technology Cost Estimation: Agencies Need to Address Significant Weaknesses in Policies and Practices. 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

Otarola, A.C. 2008. The effects of turbulence in an absorbing atmosphere on the propagation of microwave signals used in an active sounding system. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Saslow, L. 2008. Jones Beach Tower Set for Restoration. New York Times: LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmollinger 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Schmollinger 2002, Foster and Wilson 2006).

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

Two authors: (Foster and Wilson 2006)
Three or more authors: (McDaniell et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Amazonica
ISSN (print)	0044-5967
ISSN (online)	1809-4392
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