How to format your references using the Aerobiologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerobiologia. 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	Download the output style file
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

Clarke, T. (2002). Penicillin paper restores Fleming’s healthy reputation. Nature, 419(6910), 867.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reik, W., & Dean, W. (2002). Back to the beginning. Nature, 420(6912), 127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pouysségur, J., Dayan, F., & Mazure, N. M. (2006). Hypoxia signalling in cancer and approaches to enforce tumour regression. Nature, 441(7092), 437–443.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Politi, A., Cryan, M. J., Rarity, J. G., Yu, S., & O’Brien, J. L. (2008). Silica-on-silicon waveguide quantum circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5876), 646–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodgers, N. (2000). Learning to Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang, Y., & Ma, M. (Eds.). (2013). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 4 (Vol. 226). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gelmetti, C. (2015). La dermatologia e la venereologia dal XIX al XX secolo. In C. Gelmetti (Ed.), Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia (pp. 103–141). Milano: Springer.

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 Aerobiologia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 10). Found: Preserved Dinosaur Cells – But Sadly Scientists Still Can’t Build Jurassic World. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/found-preserved-dinosaur-cells-sadly-scientists-still-can-t-build-jurassic-world/. 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. (1978). The Management and Operation of the Runaway Youth Program Administered by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (No. 105325). 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

Robertson, E. (2014). Transitional services for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal (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

Saslow, L. (2007, May 13). Nassau and Suffolk Rate Poorly on Air Quality. New York Times, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clarke 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke 2002; Reik and Dean 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reik and Dean 2002)
Three or more authors: (Politi et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aerobiologia
Abbreviation	Aerobiologia (Bologna)
ISSN (print)	0393-5965
ISSN (online)	1573-3025
Scope	Plant Science Immunology Immunology and Allergy