How to format your references using the arktos citation style

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

Weeds A (2013) Hugh Huxley (1924-2013). Nature 500:530

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanz J, Fayad ZA (2008) Imaging of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Nature 451:953–957

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen L, Dürr KL, Gouaux E (2014) X-ray structures of AMPA receptor-cone snail toxin complexes illuminate activation mechanism. Science 345:1021–1026

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Elvin CM, Carr AG, Huson MG, et al (2005) Synthesis and properties of crosslinked recombinant pro-resilin. Nature 437:999–1002

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina JC, Fratta D (2006) Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rippe JM (2014) Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Villatoro D, Serna J, Rodríguez V, Torrent-Moreno M (2013) The TweetBeat of the City: Microblogging Used for Discovering Behavioural Patterns during the MWC2012. In: Nin J, Villatoro D (eds) Citizen in Sensor Networks: First International Workshop, CitiSens 2012, Montpellier, France, August 27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–56

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 arktos.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Sexual Satisfaction Correlates With Intelligence. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sexual-satisfaction-correlates-intelligence-elderly/. 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 (2000) Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Development Schedule Should Be Changed to Reduce Risks. 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

Lawrence BH (2015) Evaluation of a cultural practice and 2,4-D-based herbicide programs for glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth management. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Leland J (2016) Painting Brooklyn, Without a Brush. New York Times MB8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	arktos
Abbreviation	Arktos
ISSN (print)	2364-9453
ISSN (online)	2364-9461
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