How to format your references using the Diversity citation style

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

Swanson, R.M. Applied Physics. Photovoltaics Power Up. Science 2009, 324, 891–892.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bolhuis, J.J.; Wynne, C.D.L. Can Evolution Explain How Minds Work? Nature 2009, 458, 832–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, D.L.; Chan, B.; Bush, J.W.M. The Hydrodynamics of Water Strider Locomotion. Nature 2003, 424, 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Q.; Du, Q.; Jiao, T.; Zhang, Z.; Wang, S.; Sun, Q.; Gao, F. Rationally Designed Porous Polystyrene Encapsulated Zirconium Phosphate Nanocomposite for Highly Efficient Fluoride Uptake in Waters. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rasch, D.; Schott, D. Mathematische Statistik; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015; ISBN 9783527692095.

An edited book

Law and the Semantic Web: Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications; Benjamins, V.R., Casanovas, P., Breuker, J., Gangemi, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3369; ISBN 9783540250630.

A chapter in an edited book

Tereshin, D.A.; Cherniavsky, O.F. Theoretical Basis and a Finite Element Formula for the Direct Calculation of Steady Plastic States. In Direct Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Structures: Advanced Computational Algorithms and Material Modelling; Fuschi, P., Pisano, A.A., Weichert, D., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 81–103 ISBN 9783319129273.

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 Diversity.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 170-Year-Old Shipwreck Beer Tastes Like Goat And Smells Of Rotting Cabbage Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/170-year-old-shipwreck-beer-tastes-goat-and-smells-rotting-cabbage/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Aviation Safety: Enhanced Requirements Can Improve Commuter Pilot Training; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Prochorchik, V.L. Increasing Infant Mental Health Awareness. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Kishkovsky, S. With a New Western Arrival, Moscow Rocks. New York Times 1998, 235.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Diversity
Abbreviation	Diversity (Basel)
ISSN (online)	1424-2818
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Ecological Modelling Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation