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

Chambers, J. Planetary Science: A Chronometer for Earth’s Age. Nature 2014, 508, 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, R.J.; Martinez, N.D. Simple Rules Yield Complex Food Webs. Nature 2000, 404, 180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, J.; Park, S.-M.; Cho, K.-H. Discovery of a Kernel for Controlling Biomolecular Regulatory Networks. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2223.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Citroni, M.; Ceppatelli, M.; Bini, R.; Schettino, V. Laser-Induced Selectivity for Dimerization versus Polymerization of Butadiene under Pressure. Science 2002, 295, 2058–2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambaum, M.H.P. Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2010; ISBN 9780470710364.

An edited book

Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 11th International Conference, SPICE 2011, Dublin, Ireland, May 30 – June 1, 2011. Proceedings; O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 155; ISBN 9783642212321.

A chapter in an edited book

Uustalu, T.; Vene, V. The Essence of Dataflow Programming. In Central European Functional Programming School: First Summer School, CEFP 2005, Budapest, Hungary, July 4-15, 2005, Revised Selected Lectures; Horváth, Z., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp. 135–167 ISBN 9783540468431.

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. Bomb Sniffing Dogs Detect Prostate Cancer With More Than 95% Accuracy Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bomb-sniffing-dogs-detect-prostate-cancer-more-95-accuracy/ (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 Highway And Transit Investments: Options for Improving Information on Projects’ Benefits and Costs and Increasing Accountability for Results; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richey, B. Exploration of a Tandem Diels-Alder Ugi-Smiles Reaction. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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

Rossellini, I. The Sphinx: Greta Garbo. New York Times 1996, 685.

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