How to format your references using the Curationis citation style

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

Benson, O., 2011, ‘Assembly of hybrid photonic architectures from nanophotonic constituents’, Nature, 480(7376), 193–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murakami, M. & Kouyama, T., 2008, ‘Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin’, Nature, 453(7193), 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W., Cochell, T. & Manthiram, A., 2013, ‘Activation of aluminum as an effective reducing agent by pitting corrosion for wet-chemical synthesis’, Scientific reports, 3, 1229.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Giannakou, M.E., Goss, M., Jünger, M.A., Hafen, E., Leevers, S.J. & Partridge, L., 2004, ‘Long-lived Drosophila with overexpressed dFOXO in adult fat body’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5682), 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nyce, D.S., 2016, Position Sensors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Whitacre, D.M. (ed.), 2015, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 234, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Charnay, C., Lachiche, N. & Braud, A., 2015, ‘Construction of Complex Aggregates with Random Restart Hill-Climbing’, in J. Davis & J. Ramon (eds.), Inductive Logic Programming: 24th International Conference, ILP 2014, Nancy, France, September 14-16, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., pp. 49–61, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Curationis.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014, According to Stephen Hawking, black holes as we currently understand them do not exist, IFLScience.

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, 2005, Information Security: Progress Made, but Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Improve Controls over Air Traffic Control Systems, 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

Kennedy, K.T., 2016, A Heuristic Study of Religious Spirituality and Meaningful Work – PhD thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC .

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

Vecsey, G., 2013, A Bit of Sunshine Returns at Last for Fans in the Twilight of an Era, New York Times, p. D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benson 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Murakami & Kouyama 2008; Benson 2011).

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

Two authors: (Murakami & Kouyama 2008)
Three or more authors: (Giannakou et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Curationis
ISSN (print)	0379-8577
ISSN (online)	2223-6279
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