How to format your references using the Amerindia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Amerindia. 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

Finlay, B. B. 2001. Microbiology. Cracking Listeria’s password. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292(5522): 1665–1667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ostfeld, Richard S. & Keesing, Felicia. 2004. Ecology. Oh the locusts sang, then they dropped dead. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5701): 1488–1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn, Yong-Yeol, Bagrow, James P. & Lehmann, Sune. 2010. Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks. Nature 466(7307): 761–764.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Wang, Ling, Wang, Yu, Liang, Yong, Li, Jia, Liu, Yuchen, Zhang, Jie, Zhang, Aiqian, Fu, Jianjie & Jiang, Guibin. 2013. Specific accumulation of lipid droplets in hepatocyte nuclei of PFOA-exposed BALB/c mice. Scientific reports 3: 2174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Green, Stuart D. 2011. Making Sense of Construction Improvement. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Holovaty, Adrian. 2008. The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. Kaplan-Moss, Jacob (ed.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Polat, Ali. 2014. A Review of the Geodynamic Significance of Hornblende-Bearing Ultramafic Rocks in the Mesoarchean Fiskenæsset Complex, SW Greenland. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life, Dilek, Yildirim & Furnes, Harald (eds.), 127–147. 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 Amerindia.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Terminator-Style 3D Printer Materializes Objects From Pools Of Liquid. <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/terminator-style-3d-printer-materializes-objects-pools-liquid/> (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. 2016. Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data. 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

Kennedy-Reid, Sherry K. 2012. Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Gustines, George Gene. 2015. Iceman Comes Out. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finlay 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finlay 2001; Ostfeld and Keesing 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ostfeld and Keesing 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Amerindia
ISSN (print)	2102-5401
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