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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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 titleAerobiologia
AbbreviationAerobiologia (Bologna)
ISSN (print)0393-5965
ISSN (online)1573-3025
ScopePlant Science
Immunology
Immunology and Allergy

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