How to format your references using the Acta Biologica Sibirica citation style

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

DeHaan RL (2011) Science education. Teaching creative science thinking. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 1499–1500.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dauphas N, Kasting JF (2011) Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air. Nature 474: E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fradkin E, Kivelson SA, Oganesyan V (2007) Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315: 196–197.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hao L, Long J, YongBin L, DongRong S, Yan Z, YiGong Z, GuoWei M (2014) Hand-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary metastasectomy through sternocostal triangle access: superiority in detection of non-imaged pulmonary nodules. Scientific reports 4: 4539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koch HJ (2016) Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Popescu-Zeletin R (2010) Vehicular-2-X Communication: State-of-the-Art and Research in Mobile Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Radusch I, Rigani MA (Eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VI, 112 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Jóźwiak W, Jankowski J, Ernst T (2014) Natural Variations of the Geomagnetic Field: Observations and Application to Study of the Earth’s Interior and Ionosphere. In: Bialik R, Majdański M, Moskalik M (Eds), Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics: 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 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 Acta Biologica Sibirica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Insect Diet May Have Led To Bigger Human Brains. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/insect-diet-may-have-led-bigger-human-brains/ (October 30, 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 (2013) National Airspace System: Improved Budgeting Could Help FAA Better Determine Future Operations and Maintenance Priorities. 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

Mayo J (2010) Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach

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

Hartocollis A (2017) Celebrations Of Diversity ln Distinct Ceremonies. New York Times: A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeHaan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dauphas and Kasting 2011, DeHaan 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dauphas and Kasting 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Biologica Sibirica
ISSN (online)	2412-1908
Scope