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

Vogt, M. 2015. ECOLOGY. Adrift in an ocean of change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267):1466–1468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weis, S. M., Cheresh, D. A. 2005. Pathophysiological consequences of VEGF-induced vascular permeability. Nature, 437(7058):497–504.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLehose, L., McKee, M., Weinberg, J. 2002. Responding to the challenge of communicable disease in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562):2047–2050.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Flack, J. C., Girvan, M., de Waal, F. B. M., Krakauer, D. C. 2006. Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates. Nature, 439(7075):426–429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, J., Wang, Q. 2012. Body Area Communications, Singapore. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. ISBN: 9781118188491

An edited book

Jones, A. 2006. Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (M. MacDonald & R. Rajan, Eds.), Berkeley, CA. Apress. p. 592 p. ISBN: 9781590595893

A chapter in an edited book

Mycroft, A., Voigt, J. 2013. Notions of Aliasing and Ownership. In: D. Clarke, J. Noble, T. Wrigstad (Eds.). Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification,. p. 59–83 Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer. ISBN: 9783642369452

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. 2015. , October 22 Women Preferred For STEM Professorships – As Long As They’re Equal To Or Better Than Male Candidates. , Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-preferred-stem-professorships-long-they-re-equal-or-better-male-candidates/

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 1995. Government Aircraft: Observations on Travel by Senior Officials (No. NSIAD-95-168BR), 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

Hollenbeck, J. L. 2017. The Challenge of U.S. West Coast Earthquake Response: Federal Urban Search and Rescue (Doctoral dissertation), California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Borden, S. 2012. , June 25 A Photo Finish Too Close to Call, Even by Camera. New York Times, p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vogt, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Vogt, 2015; Weis et Cheresh, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Weis et Cheresh, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Flack et al., 2006)

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