How to format your references using the Cryptogamie, Bryologie citation style

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

Bouwmeester D. 2014. — Quantum mechanics. The quantum nondemolition derby. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344 (6189): 1224–1226

A journal article with 2 authors

Class C. & Goldstein S.L. 2005. — Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth’s mantle. Nature 436 (7054): 1107–1112

A journal article with 3 authors

Cerda E., Ravi-Chandar K. & Mahadevan L. 2002. — Thin films. Wrinkling of an elastic sheet under tension. Nature 419 (6907): 579–580

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen J.S., Li L., Wang J.Y., Barry D.A., Sheng X.F., Gu W.Z., Zhao X. & Chen L. 2004. — Water resources: groundwater maintains dune landscape. Nature 432 (7016): 459–460

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci E. & Rong C. 2009. — Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bellon, J. R., Wong, J. S., MacDonald, S. M. & Ho, A. Y. (Eds.) 2016. — Radiation Therapy Techniques and Treatment Planning for Breast Cancer. Cham, Springer International Publishing. VIII, 158 p. 78 illus., 76 illus. in color p. (Practical Guides in Radiation Oncology).

A chapter in an edited book

Timilsina G.R. 2014. — Economic Impacts of Biofuels, in Timilsina G.R. & Zilberman D. (eds.), The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty: A Global Perspective. New York, NY, Springer. p. 65–77.

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 Cryptogamie, Bryologie.

Blog post

Evans K. 2017. — Sorry Zookeepers, Chimps Don’t Care If You Play Them MusicAvailable from [accessed 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 2001. — Information Technology: Leading Commercial Practices for Outsourcing of Services N�GAO-02-214. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Karmacharya B. 2015. — Population Dynamics of Northern Cardinal and Carolina Wren in an Urban Forest Fragment: Safe Refuge or Ecological Trap? Doctoral dissertation. Lafayette, LA, University of Louisiana.

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

(Nyt) S.K. 2002. — World Briefing | Europe: Moldova: Political Tension. New York Times: A10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bouwmeester 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Class & Goldstein 2005; Bouwmeester 2014).

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

Two authors: (Class & Goldstein 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cryptogamie, Bryologie
ISSN (print)	1290-0796
ISSN (online)	1776-0992
Scope