How to format your references using the Arachne citation style

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

Running, S.W. (2008): Climate change. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.) (321)5889: 652–653.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, A. & A.N. Koehler (2015): Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor. Science (New York, N.Y.) (347)6223: 713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okita, K., T. Ichisaka, et al. (2007): Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature (448)7151: 313–317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, H., M.J. Rogers, et al. (2004): SNF-6 is an acetylcholine transporter interacting with the dystrophin complex in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature (430)7002: 891–896.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme, R. (2013): Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Bologna, M. ed. (2012): Biotargets of Cancer in Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Butler, J.L. & C.H. Sherman (2016): Transducers as Projectors. In: C. H. Sherman (Ed), Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 185–280.

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 Arachne.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014): Sturdy 3D Material Behaves Like Graphene. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sturdy-3d-material-behaves-graphene/ (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 (2004): Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Department of Education Could Improve Its Monitoring and Assistance. 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

Falcone, J.N. (2017): For Pets’ Sake: Is There a Need for Dog Safety Community Education? Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic 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

Gustines, G.G. (2016): Darwyn Cooke, Artist With a Retro Approach to Comics, Dies at 53. New York Times: B16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Arachne
ISSN (print)	1613-2688
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