How to format your references using the Diatom Research citation style

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

Klar A. J. S. 2002. Fibonacci’s flowers. Nature 417: 595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Endow S. A. & Higuchi H. 2000. A mutant of the motor protein kinesin that moves in both directions on microtubules. Nature 406: 913–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staal M., Meysman F. J. R. & Stal L. J. 2003. Temperature excludes N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans. Nature 425: 504–507.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sharpee T. O., Sugihara H., Kurgansky A. V., Rebrik S. P., Stryker M. P. & Miller K. D. 2006. Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex. Nature 439: 936–942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson M. D. 2016. Great Myths of Intimate Relationships. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vivier E., Di Santo J. & Moretta A. (eds) 2016. Natural Killer Cells. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sracic M. W. & Allen M. S. 2011. Numerical Continuation of Periodic Orbits for Harmonically Forced Nonlinear Systems. In: Civil Engineering Topics, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2011 (Ed. by T. Proulx), pp. 51–69. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Diatom Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015, June 23. Laser Device can Diagnose Malaria in 20 Seconds. 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 2002. Transportation Infrastructure: Cost and Oversight Issues on Major Highway and Bridge Projects. 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

Packer C. D. 2013. School Referenda and Ohio Department of Education Typologies: An Investigation of the Outcomes of First Attempt School Operating Levies from 2002–2010. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Hodgman J. 2017, May 19. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times: MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klar 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Endow & Higuchi 2000, Klar 2002).

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

Two authors: (Endow & Higuchi 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sharpee et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Diatom Research
Abbreviation	Diatom Res.
ISSN (print)	0269-249X
ISSN (online)	2159-8347
Scope	Aquatic Science