How to format your references using the Asian Myrmecology citation style

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

Owen J, 2015. Nanocrystal structure. The coordination chemistry of nanocrystal surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6222): 615–616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hossfeld U, Olsson L, 2002. Portraits of science. From the modern synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5578): 55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravin AA, Hannon GJ, Brennecke J, 2007. The Piwi-piRNA pathway provides an adaptive defense in the transposon arms race. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318(5851): 761–764.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Seol JH et al., 2010. Two-dimensional phonon transport in supported graphene. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328(5975): 213–216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang Q et al., 2014. Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Brandes U, Erlebach T, eds., 2005. Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 472 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Landriani L, Pozzoli M, 2014. The Accounting Measurement of Cultural Asset Heritage. In: Management and Valuation of Heritage Assets: A Comparative Analysis Between Italy and USA (Pozzoli, M, ed.), SpringerBriefs in Business, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 99–112.

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 Asian Myrmecology.

Blog post

Fang J, 2016. Polar Bears Must Swim For Several Days At A Time In The Melting Arctic. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bears-must-swim-several-days-time-melting-arctic/ on 30 October 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. FCC’s Decision To Consolidate Licensing Division in Gettysburg, Pa. Was Made Without Adequate Analysis. 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

Wang T, 2010. Trajectory Similarity Based Prediction for Remaining Useful Life Estimation. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Billard M, 2010. Fitting More Into That Bag. New York Times, June 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Owen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Owen 2015; Hossfeld & Olsson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hossfeld & Olsson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Seol et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Myrmecology
ISSN (print)	1985-1944
ISSN (online)	2462-2362
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