How to format your references using the Acta Naturae citation style

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

Jungmann K.P. // Nature. 2015. V. 524. № 7564. P. 168–169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim K.-H., Park Q.-H. // Sci. Rep. 2013. V. 3. P. 1062.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherwood S.C., Bony S., Dufresne J.-L. // Nature. 2014. V. 505. № 7481. P. 37–42.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Aoki S.K., Pamma R., Hernday A.D., Bickham J.E., Braaten B.A., Low D.A. // Science. 2005. V. 309. № 5738. P. 1245–1248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Malley C. Bonds Without Borders. // Chichester, UK. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2014.

An edited book

Lencioni R., ed. Enhancing the Role of Ultrasound with Contrast Agents. // Milano. Springer. 2006. XI, 252 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Balakrishnan H., Clarke J.-P., Feron E.M., Hansman R.J., Jimenez H. In: Feron E., ed. Advances in Control System Technology for Aerospace Applications. // Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer. 2016. 109–136.

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 Naturae.

Blog post

Andrew E. // IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/100-weird-and-wonderful-objects-have-been-sent-space/. (Accessed 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. BART Airport Extension Update. // Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saperstein A.M. Susceptibility to smoking and nicotine dependence in schizophrenia [Doctoral dissertation]. // College Park, MD. University of Maryland, College Park. 2009.

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

St. John Kelly E. // New York Times. 1998. P. D10.

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	Acta Naturae
Abbreviation	Acta Naturae
ISSN (print)	2075-8251
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine