How to format your references using the Antonie van Leeuwenhoek citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Brumfiel G (2003) Bush seeks to beef up US nuclear-weapons arsenal. Nature 422:101–102

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson MC, Perrimon N (2005) Extrusion and death of DPP/BMP-compromised epithelial cells in the developing Drosophila wing. Science 307:1785–1789

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen CJ, Ehlers TA, Insel N (2010) Onset of convective rainfall during gradual late Miocene rise of the central Andes. Science 328:490–493

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carrano AC, Liu Z, Dillin A, Hunter T (2009) A conserved ubiquitination pathway determines longevity in response to diet restriction. Nature 460:396–399

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Agachi PŞ, Nagy ZK, Cristea MV, Imre-Lucaci Á (2006) Model Based Control. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Bougé L, Prasanna VK (eds) (2005) High Performance Computing - HiPC 2004: 11th International Conference, Bangalore, India, December 19-22, 2004. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Finn A, Scheding S (2010) UVS Technology Issues. In: Scheding S (ed) Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: A Compendium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–103

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 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) The True Price of Shark Fin Soup. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/true-price-shark-fin-soup/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Space Acquisitions: DOD’s Goals for Resolving Space Based Infrared System Software Problems Are Ambitious. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Arntson JD (2015) Heidegger and disclosive rhetoric: Two divergent paths in immanence and transcendence. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Feeney K (2010) Oreos in the (Pancake) Mix. New York Times NJ10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel 2003; Gibson and Perrimon 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gibson and Perrimon 2005)
Three or more authors: (Carrano et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Abbreviation	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
ISSN (print)	0003-6072
ISSN (online)	1572-9699
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology General Medicine