How to format your references using the Arthropod Management Tests citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthropod Management Tests. 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	Download the output style file
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

Willyard C. 2010. Joining forces. Nature. 466(7304):S9-10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berlin S, Ellegren H. 2001. Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. Nature. 413(6851):37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grieco F, van Noordwijk AJ, Visser ME. 2002. Evidence for the effect of learning on timing of reproduction in blue tits. Science. 296(5565):136–138.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Furutani S, Nakatani Y, Miura Y, et al. 2014. GluCl a target of indole alkaloid okaramines: a 25 year enigma solved. Sci. Rep. 4:6190.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferdjallah M. 2011. Introduction to Digital Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ślęzak D, Kim T-H, Kiumi A, et al., editors. 2009. Advances in Software Engineering: International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications, ASEA 2009 Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Communications in Computer and Information Science). XIV, 348 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lenk A, Pallas F. 2013. Modeling Quality Attributes of Cloud-Standby-Systems. In: Lau K-K, Lamersdorf W, Pimentel E, editors. Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: Second European Conference, ESOCC 2013, Málaga, Spain, September 11-13, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science). p. 49–63.

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 Arthropod Management Tests.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016 Nov 8. How Oil Spills From Wartime Sea Battles Nearly Wiped Out Famous Welsh Guillemots. IFLScience.

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. 1998. Elementary and Secondary Education: Flexibility Initiatives Do Not Address Districts’ Key Concerns About Federal Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: HEHS-98-232.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cayo P. 2017. A Shifting Bottleneck Procedure with Multiple Objectives in a Complex Manufacturing Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Liptak A, Wines M. 2017 May 15. Justices Thwart Strict Voter ID Law That Unevenly Hurt Blacks. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001; Willyard, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Berlin and Ellegren, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Furutani et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arthropod Management Tests
ISSN (online)	2155-9856
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