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

Rabeharisoa V (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. Socializing genetic diseases. Science 331:1026–1027

A journal article with 2 authors

Kmita M, Duboule D (2003) Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering. Science 301:331–333

A journal article with 3 authors

Erol V, Ozaydin F, Altintas AA (2014) Analysis of entanglement measures and LOCC maximized quantum Fisher information of general two qubit systems. Sci Rep 4:5422

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Basu T, Iyer KK, Singh K, Sampathkumaran EV (2013) Novel dielectric anomalies due to spin-chains above and below Néel temperature in Ca3Co2O6. Sci Rep 3:3104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi F, Benoist T, Darlay J, et al (2014) Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ehrgott M, Fonseca CM, Gandibleux X, et al (eds) (2009) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 5th International Conference, EMO 2009, Nantes, France, April 7-10, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gärtner B, Matoušek J (2012) Approximately Solving Semidefinite Programs. In: Matousek J (ed) Approximation Algorithms and Semidefinite Programming. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–98

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

Luntz S (2016) Rising Seas Due To Climate Change Claim Their First Mammal Species. In: IFLScience. 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 (1996) Information Technology: Best Practices Can Improve Performance and Produce Results. 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

Schloesser K (2010) Improving services for persons with developmental disabilities through the utilization of person-centered thinking: A grant-writing project. 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

Barron J (2017) Wounded by ‘Fearless Girl,’ Creator of ‘Charging Bull’ Wants Her to Move. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabeharisoa 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kmita and Duboule 2003; Rabeharisoa 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kmita and Duboule 2003)
Three or more authors: (Basu et al. 2013)

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

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