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

Robins, R.W. 2005. Psychology. The nature of personality: genes, culture, and national character. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 62–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bray, G.A.; Tartaglia, L.A. 2000. Medicinal strategies in the treatment of obesity. Nature 404: 672–677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gagnon, K.; Chadwell, C.D.; Norabuena, E. 2005. Measuring the onset of locking in the Peru-Chile trench with GPS and acoustic measurements. Nature 434: 205–208.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Patz, J.A.; Campbell-Lendrum, D.; Holloway, T.; Foley, J.A. 2005. Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature 438: 310–317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simko, S.P. 2012. Strategic Fixed Income Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

Simon, A. 2008. Value-Range Analysis of C Programs: Towards Proving the Absence of Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. In: Simon, A. (Ed.) Springer, London, XXII, 302 p. 119 illusp.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivlin, R.S. 2011. An Introduction to Non-Linear Continuum Mechanics. In: Rilvil, R.S. (Ed.), Non-Linear Continuum Theories in Mechanics and Physics and Their Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p.151–309.

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

Hale, T. 2016. Sheep Get High On Valium To Help Scientists Understand Anxiety In Farm Animals. IFLScience. (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sheep-get-high-on-valium-to-help-scientists-understand-anxiety-in-farm-animals/). 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. 1999. Competitive Financing Mechanisms: Auctions Used by Federal Agencies. 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

Okafor-Dike, L.C. 2008. The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria. 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

Mueller, B. 2015. An Off-Duty Police Officer Is Robbed of Her Gun After Being Attacked in the Bronx. New York Times: A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robins 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bray and Tartaglia 2000, Robins 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bray and Tartaglia 2000)
Three or more authors: (Patz et al. 2005)

About the journal

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