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

Winnacker, E.-L., 2002. European science. Science 295, 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devery, J.J., 3rd, Stephenson, C.R.J., 2015. Catalysis: dual catalysis at the flick of a switch. Nature 519, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merritt, J.M., Bondybey, V.E., Heaven, M.C., 2009. Beryllium dimer--caught in the act of bonding. Science 324, 1548–1551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mason, D.R., Menabde, S.G., Yu, S., Park, N., 2014. Plasmonic excitations of 1D metal-dielectric interfaces in 2D systems: 1D surface plasmon polaritons. Sci. Rep. 4, 4536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes, G., 2008. A Practical Guide to the Wiring Regulations. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Jeyakumar, V., 2008. Nonsmooth Vector Functions and Continuous Optimization, Optimization and Its Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Cova, M.A., Braini, M., 2008. Rachide Infettivo, in: Martino, F. (Ed.), Imaging Del Rachide: Il Vecchio e Il Nuovo. Springer, Milano, pp. 61–73.

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. Man-Made Chemical Pollutants Could Be Making The Polar Bear Penis Bone More Fragile [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-made-chemical-pollutants-could-be-making-polar-bear-penis-bone-more-fragile/ (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, 2001. Land Management Systems: BLM’s Actions to Improve Information Technology Management (No. GAO-01-282). 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

Ortiz Martinez, B., 2009. Diabetes among older Latino adults (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Tankersley, J., 2017. Federal Debt Is Not Reduced By Gains in Market. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winnacker, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Devery and Stephenson, 2015; Winnacker, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Devery and Stephenson, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mason et al., 2014)

About the journal

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