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

Bird, A. (2001): Molecular biology. Methylation talk between histones and DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) (294)5549: 2113–2115.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giuseppone, N. & J.-F. Lutz (2011): Materials chemistry: catalytic accordions. Nature (473)7345: 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambarey, A., K. Prashanthi, et al. (2013): Mining large-scale response networks reveals “topmost activities” in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Scientific reports (3): 2302.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, J.Y., K. Lee, et al. (2007): Efficient tandem polymer solar cells fabricated by all-solution processing. Science (New York, N.Y.) (317)5835: 222–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, S.D. & L. Nahar (2007): Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Zhou, X., O. Sokolsky, et al. eds. (2006): 4097 Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing: EUC 2006 Workshops: NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, TRUST, ESO, and MSA, Seoul, Korea, August 1-4, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Awange, J.L., E.W. Grafarend, et al. (2010): Polynomial resultants. In: E. W. Grafarend, B. Paláncz, and P. Zaletnyik (Eds), Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–62.

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

Andrews, R. (2017): Elon Musk Will Quit White House Advisor Role If America Leaves Paris Agreement. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/elon-musk-quit-white-house-advisor-role-america-leaves-paris/ (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 (1979): Information on the Labor Department’s Skill Training Improvement Program. 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

Schroeder, S.K. (2017): Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida

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

Hartocollis, A. & A. Harmon (2017): For Many Medical Students, the Caribbean Was Warm and Welcoming. Until Now. New York Times: A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Arachne
ISSN (print)	1613-2688
Scope

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