How to format your references using the Adansonia citation style

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

Mustelin T. 2006. — Immunology. Restless T cells sniff and go. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5795): 1902–1903

A journal article with 2 authors

Coles H.J. & Pivnenko M.N. 2005. — Liquid crystal ‘blue phases’ with a wide temperature range. Nature 436 (7053): 997–1000

A journal article with 3 authors

Veizer J., Godderis Y. & François L.M. 2000. — Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon. Nature 408 (6813): 698–701

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li H.-L., Wang Y.-Y., An S.-Q., Zhi Y.-B., Lei G.-C. & Zhang M.-X. 2014. — Sediment type affects competition between a native and an exotic species in coastal China. Scientific reports 4: 6748

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernstein L. & Yuhas C.M. 2005. — Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative Software Engineering. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fred, A., Dietz, J. L. G., Aveiro, D., Liu, K. & Filipe, J. (Eds.) 2015. — Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: 6th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2014, Rome, Italy, October 21-24, 2014, Revised Selected PapersVol. 553. Cham, Springer International Publishing. XX, 622 p. 174 illus. in color p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Gibson C. 2016. — The Polish Livonian Legacy in Latgalia: The Confluence of Slavic Ethnolects in the Baltic-Slavic Borderland, in Kamusella T., Nomachi M. & Gibson C. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. London, Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 57–80.

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 Adansonia.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. — Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells, But Not Healthy CellsAvailable from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/brazilian-wasp-venom-kills-cancer-cells-not-healthy-cells/ [accessed 30 October 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 1977. — Comments on Senate Bill 991, A Bill to Establish a Department of Education N�B-149737. 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

Rivas V.E. 2014. — Art appreciation program for homeless children: A grant proposal project Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA, 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

Kelly M. 1992. — THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Settles Into Theme Of Inclusion and Consensus. New York Times: 19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mustelin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Coles & Pivnenko 2005; Mustelin 2006).

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

Two authors: (Coles & Pivnenko 2005)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Adansonia
ISSN (print)	1280-8571
ISSN (online)	1639-4798
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