How to format your references using the Arthropod Structure and Development citation style

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

Parthasarathy, H., 2002. From scepticism to acceptance. Nature 419, 4–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, P.B., Steitz, T.A., 2002. The involvement of RNA in ribosome function. Nature 418, 229–235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goodman, D.B., Church, G.M., Kosuri, S., 2013. Causes and effects of N-terminal codon bias in bacterial genes. Science 342, 475–479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wong, Y.H., Ryu, T., Seridi, L., Ghosheh, Y., Bougouffa, S., Qian, P.-Y., Ravasi, T., 2014. Transcriptome analysis elucidates key developmental components of bryozoan lophophore development. Sci. Rep. 4, 6534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baines, P., Ferraro, J., Rogers, P., 2010. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Silvestrov, S., Rančić, M. (Eds.), 2016. Engineering Mathematics II: Algebraic, Stochastic and Analysis Structures for Networks, Data Classification and Optimization, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Magnier, S., 2015. Suspensive Condition and Dynamic Epistemic Logic: A Leibnizian Survey, in: Armgardt, M., Canivez, P., Chassagnard-Pinet, S. (Eds.), Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic, Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–94.

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 Structure and Development.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. They May be Huge, But Just How Deadly Are Huntsman Spiders? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/they-may-be-huge-but-just-how-deadly-are-huntsman-spiders/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Drug-Impaired Driving: Additional Support Needed for Public Awareness Initiatives (No. GAO-15-293). 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

Cannon, J.R., 2012. Microwave-supported acid hydrolysis for proteomics (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Johnson, G., 2017. Awakenings. New York Times BR13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parthasarathy, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Steitz, 2002; Parthasarathy, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Steitz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arthropod Structure and Development
ISSN (print)	1467-8039
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