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

Rastan, S. 2015. Mary F. Lyon (1925-2014). Nature, 518(7537):36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sawa, A., Snyder, S. H. 2005. Genetics. Two genes link two distinct psychoses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5751):1128–1129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, C. E., Kooistra, T., Kim, D. H. 2010. An essential role for XBP-1 in host protection against immune activation in C. elegans. Nature, 463(7284):1092–1095.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, P. Y., Ruiz-Vargas, C. S., van der Zande, A. M., Whitney, W. S., Levendorf, M. P., Kevek, J. W., Garg, S., Alden, J. S., Hustedt, C. J., Zhu, Y., Park, J., McEuen, P. L., Muller, D. A. 2011. Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts. Nature, 469(7330):389–392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonem, J. M. 2011. Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists, Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9780470929247

An edited book

Bourland, C. T. 2010. The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More (G. L. Vogt, Ed.), New York, NY. Springer. p. XI, 220 p. ISBN: 9781441906236

A chapter in an edited book

Clausen, B., Brown, D. W., Tomé, C. N., Neil, C. J., Wollmershauser, J. A., Agnew, S. R. 2011. Application of a Finite Strain Elastic-Plastic Self-Consistent Model to Deformation of Magnesium. In: T. Proulx (Ed.). Engineering Applications of Residual Stress, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics,. p. 33–34 New York, NY. Springer. ISBN: 9781461402244

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

Andrew, E. 2013. , October 22 Unusual Animal Intelligence. , Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/unusual-animal-intelligence/

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 2007. Railroad Safety--Responses to Posthearing Questions (No. GAO-07-610R), 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

Kim, Y. I. 2008. Essays on Volatility Risk, Asset Returns and Consumption-Based Asset Pricing (Doctoral dissertation), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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

Shultz, G. P., Halstead, T. 2017. , May 9 Paris Deal Benefits Business. New York Times, p. A23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rastan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rastan, 2015; Sawa et Snyder, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sawa et Snyder, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2011)

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