How to format your references using the Dendrochronologia citation style

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

Bynum, W., 2012. Nobel success: What makes a great lab? Nature 490, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vähärautio, A., Taipale, J., 2014. Cancer. Cancer by super-enhancer. Science 346, 1291–1292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janetopoulos, C., Jin, T., Devreotes, P., 2001. Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells. Science 291, 2408–2411.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cha, J.N., Stucky, G.D., Morse, D.E., Deming, T.J., 2000. Biomimetic synthesis of ordered silica structures mediated by block copolypeptides. Nature 403, 289–292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jenkinson, J., Hyde, T., Ahmad, S., 2008. Building Blocks for Learning: Occupational Therapy Approaches. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

An edited book

Pointcheval, D., Mu, Y., Chen, K. (Eds.), 2006. Cryptology and Network Security: 5th International Conference, CANS 2006, Suzhou, China, December 8-10, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Seki, Y., 2014. Current Indication, in: Choi, S.H., Kasama, K. (Eds.), Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 23–26.

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 Dendrochronologia.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. 2014, The Year That Was: Health + Medicine [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Tongass Timber Reform Act: Implementation of the Act’s Contract Modification Requirements (No. RCED-95-2). 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

Tapal, S.S., 2012. Is the fourth generation of Six Sigma an effective professional development model in K-12 education? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Leland, J., 2016. Ground Zero, Deluged. New York Times MB4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bynum, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bynum, 2012; Vähärautio and Taipale, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vähärautio and Taipale, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cha et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Dendrochronologia
Abbreviation	Dendrochronologia (Verona)
ISSN (print)	1125-7865
Scope	Plant Science Ecology