How to format your references using the Cladistics citation style

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

Abbott, A. 2003. Danish biotech centre faces axe. Nature. 422, 105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teague, B.P., Weiss, R. 2015. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Synthetic communities, the sum of parts. Science (New York, N.Y.). 349, 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keller, R.A., Fisk, M.R., White, W.M. 2000. Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot. Nature. 405, 673–676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Curro, N.J., Caldwell, T., Bauer, E.D., Morales, L.A., Graf, M.J., Bang, Y., Balatsky, A.V., Thompson, J.D., Sarrao, J.L. 2005. Unconventional superconductivity in PuCoGa5. Nature. 434, 622–625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, J. 2009. Training Camp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hosseini, K. 2011. Minimizing Spurious Tones in Digital Delta-Sigma Modulators, 1st ed, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Shukla, P. 2012. Domains and Interfaces in Random Fields, in: Menon, G.I., Ray, P. (Eds.), The Physics of Disordered Systems, Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon, pp. 141–158.

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 Cladistics.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2016. US Science Funding In Danger Of Being Frozen Due To Political Maneuvering In Congress [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/us-science-funding-in-danger-of-being-frozen-due-to-political-maneuvering-in-congress/ (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. General Aviation: Observations Related to Liability Insurance Requirements and Coverage for Aircraft Owners (No. GAO-15-740). 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

Smith, J.A. 2010. Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum (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

Oestreich, J.R. 2017. Move Over, Bach. Handel’s Moving In. New York Times. C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Teague and Weiss, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Teague and Weiss, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Curro et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cladistics
Abbreviation	Cladistics
ISSN (print)	0748-3007
ISSN (online)	1096-0031
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics