How to format your references using the Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. 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

Bartels-Rausch, T. 2013. Chemistry: Ten things we need to know about ice and snow. Nature, 494(7435):27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, Y., Zhang, Z. 2014. Potential microRNA-mediated oncogenic intercellular communication revealed by pan-cancer analysis. Scientific Reports, 4:7097.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao, C. V., Wolf, D. M., Arkin, A. P. 2002. Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise. Nature, 420(6912):231–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strom, R. G., Malhotra, R., Ito, T., Yoshida, F., Kring, D. A. 2005. The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5742):1847–1850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shick, P. L. 2007. Topology, Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9781118031582

An edited book

Robert-McComb, J. J., Norman, R., Zumwalt, M. (Eds.) 2008. The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan, Totowa, NJ. Humana Press. p. XVI, 457 p. ISBN: 9781588297303

A chapter in an edited book

Nalle, S. C., Turner, J. R. 2013. Endothelial and Epithelial Barriers in Graft-Versus-Host Disease. In: C. Y. Cheng (Ed.). Biology and Regulation of Blood-Tissue Barriers,. p. 105–131 New York, NY. Springer. ISBN: 9781461447108

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 Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014. , June 1 Man Films Being Struck By Lightning. , Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/man-films-being-struck-lightning/

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 1980. Opinion on the Legality of the Scheduled Transfer of Administrative Responsibility for Certain Law Enforcement Education Programs (No. B-198096), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Klyce, L. R. 2008. Assessing parent-child agreement on an eating disorder symptom questionnaire (Doctoral dissertation), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

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

Vecsey, G. 2010. , June 6 Pelé Remains the Last Word in a Changed World. New York Times, p. SP8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bartels-Rausch, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bartels-Rausch, 2013; Li et Zhang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li et Zhang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Strom et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
Abbreviation	Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendel. Brun.
ISSN (print)	1211-8516
ISSN (online)	2464-8310
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences