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

Wentworth, P., Jr, 2002. Tech.Sight. Antibody design by man and nature. Science 296, 2247–2249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skourtis, S.S., Beratan, D.N., 2007. Biochemistry. Photosynthesis from the protein’s perspective. Science 316, 703–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altabet, M.A., Higginson, M.J., Murray, D.W., 2002. The effect of millennial-scale changes in Arabian Sea denitrification on atmospheric CO2. Nature 415, 159–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Graetz, N., Friedman, J., Osgood-Zimmerman, A., Burstein, R., Biehl, M.H., Shields, C., Mosser, J.F., Casey, D.C., Deshpande, A., Earl, L., Reiner, R.C., Ray, S.E., Fullman, N., Levine, A.J., Stubbs, R.W., Mayala, B.K., Longbottom, J., Browne, A.J., Bhatt, S., Weiss, D.J., Gething, P.W., Mokdad, A.H., Lim, S.S., Murray, C.J.L., Gakidou, E., Hay, S.I., 2018. Mapping local variation in educational attainment across Africa. Nature 555, 48–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Y., 2010. Practical Database Programming with Visual C#.NET. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vaidya, S., Jain, L.C., Yoshida, H. (Eds.), 2007. Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare-2, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, N., Kaur, A., Shevkani, K., 2014. Maize: Grain Structure, Composition, Milling, and Starch Characteristics, in: Chaudhary, D.P., Kumar, S., Langyan, S. (Eds.), Maize: Nutrition Dynamics and Novel Uses. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 65–76.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. High-Intensity Workouts Could Slow Down Your Aging By Almost A Decade [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, 1999. Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century (No. RCED-99-176). 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

Bai, H., 2017. Cognitive processes of prioritization in multitasking (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Treaty Doesn’t Give Foreign Defendants Special Status in U.S. Courts, Justices Rule. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wentworth, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Skourtis and Beratan, 2007; Wentworth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Skourtis and Beratan, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Graetz et al., 2018)

About the journal

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