How to format your references using the Amphibia-Reptilia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Amphibia-Reptilia (AMRE). 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

Sulloway, F.J. (2007): Psychology. Birth order and intelligence. Science 316: 1711–1712.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otto, S.P., Jarne, P. (2001): Evolution. Haploids--hapless or happening? Science 292: 2441–2443.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prospero, J.M., Bullard, J.E., Hodgkins, R. (2012): High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms. Science 335: 1078–1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Husko, C.A., Clark, A.S., Collins, M.J., De Rossi, A., Combrié, S., Lehoucq, G., Rey, I.H., Krauss, T.F., Xiong, C., Eggleton, B.J. (2013): Multi-photon absorption limits to heralded single photon sources. Sci. Rep. 3: 3087.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, N.H. (2010): Time Series: Applications to Finance with R and S-Plus®. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

(2007): Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. New York, NY, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wille, R., Drechsler, R. (2010): Embedding of Irreversible Functions. In: Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic, p. 93–111. Drechsler, R., Ed. 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 Amphibia-Reptilia.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017): NASA Has Developed Futuristic Chain Mail Fabric To Use In Space. IFLScience.

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 (2004): Information Technology: Training Can Be Enhanced by Greater Use of Leading Practices. 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

Wilson, B. (2009): Scale effects and the determinants of parcel subdivision: A discrete -time hazard analysis. Doctoral dissertation thesis, University of North Carolina.

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

Shear, M.D. (2017): Ask Him Anything, Unless It’s About Trump. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sulloway, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Otto and Jarne, 2001; Sulloway, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Otto and Jarne, 2001)
Three authors: (Prospero, Bullard, and Hodgkins, 2012)
4 or more authors: (Husko et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Amphibia-Reptilia
Abbreviation	Amphib-reptil.
ISSN (print)	0173-5373
ISSN (online)	1568-5381
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology