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

Manasse, H. R., Jr. (2005). Public health. Conscientious objection and the pharmacist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5728), 1558–1559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whitesides, G. M., & Crabtree, G. W. (2007). Don’t forget long-term fundamental research in energy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 796–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan, V. N., Elsesser, M. T., & Pine, D. J. (2003). Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 483–487.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, J., Zhou, L., Shi, H., Chern, M., Yu, H., Yi, H., et al. (2018). A single transcription factor promotes both yield and immunity in rice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6406), 1026–1028.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fayngold, M. (2005). Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Peterson, G., & Shenoi, S. (Eds.). (2012). Advances in Digital Forensics VIII: 8th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Pretoria, South Africa, January 3-5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 383). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaidanovskii, N. L. (2012). The Department of Radio Astronomy of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In S. Y. Braude, A. E. Salomonovich, V. A. Samanian, I. S. Shklovskii, R. L. Sorochenko, V. S. Troitskii, et al. (Eds.), A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR: A Collection of Scientific Essays (pp. 117–135). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 29). Space Declared LGBT-Friendly After Pride Flag Launch Stunt. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-declared-lgbt-friendly-after-pride-flag-launch-stunt/. 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. (2003). Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines (No. GAO-03-751). 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

Ly, L. (2017). Performance Appraisal in a Family Business (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Hodgman, J. (2016, August 17). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manasse 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Manasse 2005; Whitesides and Crabtree 2007).

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

Two authors: (Whitesides and Crabtree 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2018)

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