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

Abbott, A. (2001): Hopes of biotech interest spur Latvian population genetics. Nature 412: 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaw, A.S., Huang, Y. (2010): Immunology. CAR’ing for the skin. Science 329: 1154–1155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham, J., Rau, A., Burnett, K. (2005): From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science 307: 872–875.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shemansky, D.E., Stewart, A.I.F., West, R.A., Esposito, L.W., Hallett, J.T., Liu, X. (2005): The Cassini UVIS stellar probe of the Titan atmosphere. Science 308: 978–982.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adam, C. (2016): Forensic Evidence in Court. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

(2013): Technology Roadmapping for Strategy and Innovation: Charting the Route to Success. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Da̧browski, B.P., Rudawy, P., Karlický, M. (2012): Millisecond Radio Spikes in the Decimetric Band. In: Energy Storage and Release through the Solar Activity Cycle: Models Meet Radio Observations, p. 71–86. Marqué, C., Nindos, A., Eds. New York, NY, 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 Amphibia-Reptilia.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015): Scientists Find Vessels That Connect Immune System And Brain. 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 (2008): Comments on the Office of Personnel Management’s February 20, 2008 Report to Congress Regarding the Retirement Systems Modernization. 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

Abedin, G. (2010): Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts. Doctoral dissertation thesis, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011): The Champions In Verse, And With Ghosts. New York Times SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Shaw and Huang, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shaw and Huang, 2010)
Three authors: (Dunningham, Rau, and Burnett, 2005)
4 or more authors: (Shemansky et al., 2005)

About the journal

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