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

Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2008). Psychology. Trust me on this. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5890), 778–780.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik, P., & Frantz, S. (2003). The biotechnology sector’s craving for commercial expertise is fuelling a cultural exchange with drug industry. Nature, 422(6931), 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jamtveit, B., Austrheim, H., & Malthe-Sørenssen, A. (2000). Accelerated hydration of the Earth’s deep crust induced by stress perturbations. Nature, 408(6808), 75–78.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yukimoto, N., Tsutsui, M., He, Y., Shintaku, H., Tanaka, S., Kawano, S., et al. (2013). Tracking single-particle dynamics via combined optical and electrical sensing. Scientific reports, 3, 1855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayés de Luna, A. (2011). Clinical Arrhythmology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Enderling, H., Almog, N., & Hlatky, L. (Eds.). (2013). Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy (Vol. 734). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, S., Elenius, D., Li, W., Lincoln, P., Shankar, N., & Steiner, W. (2016). ARSENAL: Automatic Requirements Specification Extraction from Natural Language. In S. Rayadurgam & O. Tkachuk (Eds.), NASA Formal Methods: 8th International Symposium, NFM 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 7-9, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 41–46). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2016, May 19). Do Women Really Go For “Bad Boys’? Here’s The Science That Settles The Question. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/do-women-really-go-bad-boys-here-s-science-settles-question/. 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. (2014). Airport Funding: Aviation Industry Changes Affect Airport Development Costs and Financing (No. GAO-14-658T). 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

Stefanek, A. (2019). Quantitative Purchasing Structure for Ferrous Scrap (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, March 11). Returning for Friendship, and Drums. New York Times, p. SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer-Lindenberg 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer-Lindenberg 2008; Smaglik and Frantz 2003).

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

Two authors: (Smaglik and Frantz 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yukimoto et al. 2013)

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