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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schilling, G., 2000. ASTROPHYSICS: Neutron Stars Imply Relativity’s a Drag. Science 289, 1448a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaya, M., Higuchi, H., 2010. Nonlinear elasticity and an 8-nm working stroke of single myosin molecules in myofilaments. Science 329, 686–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andrew, T.L., Tsai, H.-Y., Menon, R., 2009. Confining light to deep subwavelength dimensions to enable optical nanopatterning. Science 324, 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baek, D., Villén, J., Shin, C., Camargo, F.D., Gygi, S.P., Bartel, D.P., 2008. The impact of microRNAs on protein output. Nature 455, 64–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoute, K., 2014. Help, I’m Rich! John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mason, T. (Ed.), 2006. Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Oshchepkov, A., 2015. Compensating Wage Differentials Across Russian Regions, in: Mussida, C., Pastore, F. (Eds.), Geographical Labor Market Imbalances: Recent Explanations and Cures, AIEL Series in Labour Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–105.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Antifreeze in Antarctic Fish Also Causes Ice Crystal Build-Up [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/antifreeze-antarctic-fish-also-causes-ice-crystal-build/ (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, 2007. Talking Books for the Blind (No. GAO-07-871R). 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

De la Rosa-Carrillo, E.L., 2015. On the language of Internet Memes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Design Teams Hired in Nassau Coliseum Project. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaya and Higuchi, 2010; Schilling, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kaya and Higuchi, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Baek et al., 2008)

About the journal

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