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

Owens B. 2013. Mining: Extreme prospects. Nature 495: S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fauci A.S. & F.S. Collins. 2012. Benefits and risks of influenza research: lessons learned. Science 336: 1522–1523.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dangl J.L., D.M. Horvath & B.J. Staskawicz. 2013. Pivoting the plant immune system from dissection to deployment. Science 341: 746–751.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baldwin S.L., B.D. Monteleone, L.E. Webb, et al. 2004. Pliocene eclogite exhumation at plate tectonic rates in eastern Papua New Guinea. Nature 431: 263–267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenett R.S., S. Zacks & D. Amberti. 2013. “Modern Industrial Statistics.” Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nguyen N.T. (ed.). 2012. “Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VI.” Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Petitjean M. 2013. Spheres Unions and Intersections and Some of their Applications in Molecular Modeling. In Distance Geometry: Theory, Methods, and Applications Mucherino A., Lavor C., Liberti L., et al., Eds. 61–83. 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 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014.IFLScience September 2, 2014 Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-decipher-cues-other-dogs-barks/.

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. 2012. “Kachemak Bay Ferry: Federally Funded Ferry Was Constructed with Limited Oversight and Faces Future Operating Challenges.” 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

Kim C.S. 2017. Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride. .

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

Ahmed A., P. Nunez & A. Blinder. 2016. From Haiti to Florida, a Hurricane’s Trail of Disaster and Near Misses. New York Times A24.

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

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