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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Brigham L. 2011. — Marine protection in the Arctic cannot wait. Nature 478 (7368): 157

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu J. & Diamond J. 2008. — Science and government. Revolutionizing China’s environmental protection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5859): 37–38

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang S., Hashimoto N. & Ohnuki S. 2013. — Hydrogen-induced change in core structures of {110}[111] edge and {110}[111] screw dislocations in iron. Scientific reports 3: 2760

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Snodgrass C., Tubiana C., Vincent J.-B., Sierks H., Hviid S., Moissl R., Boehnhardt H., Barbieri C., Koschny D., Lamy P., Rickman H., Rodrigo R., Carry B., Lowry S.C., Laird R.J.M., Weissman P.R., Fitzsimmons A., Marchi S. & OSIRIS team 2010. — A collision in 2009 as the origin of the debris trail of asteroid P/2010 A2. Nature 467 (7317): 814–816

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoute K. 2014. — Help, I’m Rich! Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Prescott, T. J., Lepora, N. F., Mura, A. & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (Eds.) 2012. — Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. ProceedingsVol. 7375. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. XVI, 405 p. 200 illus p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Fonseca B., Gonçalves R., Nunes R.R., Teixeira M.S., Paredes H., Morgado L. & Martins P. 2014. — BIZZY – A Social Game for Entrepreneurship Education, in Zaphiris P. & Ioannou A. (eds.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology-Rich Environments for Learning and Collaboration: First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Cham, Springer International Publishing. p. 33–41. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Hamilton K. 2015. — Why Don’t Scavengers Get Sick?Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-don-t-scavengers-get-sick/ [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 2000. — Mass Transit: Review of the South Boston Piers Transitway Finance Plan N^oGAO-01-174R. 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

Wester A.M. 2013. — Readers’ trust, socio-demographic, and acuity influences in citizen journalism credibility for disrupted online newspapers Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ, University of Phoenix.

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

Kishkovsky S. 2000. — August 13-19; Czar Beatified. New York Times: 42

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brigham 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Diamond 2008; Brigham 2011).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Diamond 2008)
Three or more authors: (Snodgrass et al. 2010)

About the journal

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