How to format your references using the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 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

Koen D. 2007. Time to make haste. Nature 447: 1030.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson D.W. & J.M. Wallace. 2001. Regional climate impacts of the Northern Hemisphere annular mode. Science 293: 85–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ting J.P.Y., J.A. Duncan & Y. Lei. 2010. How the noninflammasome NLRs function in the innate immune system. Science 327: 286–290.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shrestha V.R., S.-S. Lee, E.-S. Kim, et al. 2014. Non-iridescent transmissive structural color filter featuring highly efficient transmission and high excitation purity. Sci. Rep. 4: 4921.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coles A. & D.G. Hawkins. 2011. “MIDAS Technical Analysis.” Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hameurlain A., J. Küng & R. Wagner (eds.). 2012. “Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V.” Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Blauert J. & N. Xiang. 2009. Electromechanic and Electroacoustic Transduction. In Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures Xiang N., Ed. 37–53. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Blog post

Fang J. 2016. IFLScience June 2, 2016 Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-fiddler-crabs-use-vibrations-lure-females-burrows/.

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. 2014. “Maritime Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Better Address Port Cybersecurity.” 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

Petrovic V. 2017. The K(n)-local E n-Adams Spectral Sequence and a Cohomological Approximation of its E2-term. .

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

Koblin J. & S. Maheshwari. 2017. With a ‘Roseanne’ Revival and the Backstreet Boys, ABC Mines the Past. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Abbreviation	Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0077-8923
ISSN (online)	1749-6632
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology