How to format your references using the Antarctic Science citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Flower, R. 2000. The man who knew doses. Nature, 406, 831.
A journal article with 2 authors
David, L.A. & Alm, E.J. 2011. Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion. Nature, 469, 93–96.
A journal article with 3 authors
Tagkopoulos, I., Liu, Y.-C. & Tavazoie, S. 2008. Predictive behavior within microbial genetic networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320, 1313–1317.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Smith, D.M., Cusack, S., Colman, A.W., Folland, C.K., Harris, G.R. & Murphy, J.M. 2007. Improved surface temperature prediction for the coming decade from a global climate model. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317, 796–799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Raeburn, D. 2016. Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Faist, T. & Schade, J. eds. 2013. Disentangling Migration and Climate Change: Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XIX, 259 p pp.
A chapter in an edited book
London, S.E. 2013. Prospective: How the Zebra Finch Genome Strengthens Brain-Behavior Connections in Songbird Models of Learned Vocalization. In Helekar, S.A., ed. Animal Models of Speech and Language Disorders. New York, NY: Springer, 89–108.

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 Antarctic Science.

Blog post
Andrew, E. 2015. Hurricane Forecast Accuracy Is Improving, But Don’t Overly Focus On The Skinny Black Line. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hurricane-forecast-accuracy-improving-don-t-overly-focus-skinny-black-line/ [Accessed October 30, 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. 1991. Transportation: Status of GAO’s Open Recommendations on Transportation Policies and Programs (RCED-91-112). 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
Collins, J.W. 2015. An Examination of Chronic Absenteeism as Related to Performance on End-of-Year Missouri State Assessments. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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
Greenhouse, L. 2007. Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flower 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Flower 2000, David & Alm 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (David & Alm 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleAntarctic Science
AbbreviationAntarct. Sci.
ISSN (print)0954-1020
ISSN (online)1365-2079
ScopeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Geology
Oceanography

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