How to format your references using the European Journal of Taxonomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT). 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

Melton L. 2003. Pharmacogenetics and genotyping: on the trail of SNPs. Nature 422 (6934): 917, 919, 921, 923.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacBean N. & Peylin P. 2014. Biogeochemistry: agriculture and the global carbon cycle. Nature 515 (7527): 351–352.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirn T.J., Jude B.A. & Taylor R.K. 2005. A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection. Nature 438 (7069): 863–866.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nam K.T., Kim D.-W., Yoo P.J., Chiang C.-Y., Meethong N., Hammond P.T., Chiang Y.-M. & Belcher A.M. 2006. Virus-enabled synthesis and assembly of nanowires for lithium ion battery electrodes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5775): 885–888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crighton D.A. & Towl G.J. 2009. Psychology in Prisons. BPS Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Downey R.G. 2013. Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolino A., Bucchiarone A., Gnesi S. & Muccini H. 2005. An Architecture-Centric Approach for Producing Quality Systems. In: Reussner R., Mayer J., Stafford J.A., Overhage S., Becker S. & Schroeder P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality: First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005, and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. Proceedings: 21–37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 European Journal of Taxonomy.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2014. Oldest Known Rock Discovered. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/oldest-known-rock-discovered/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 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 1971. Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at the University of Southern California and Participating Schools in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties. 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

Howard J.T. 2010. Transracial adoption psychoeducational services for potential adoptive parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley B. 2017. Poetry in Missed Connections. New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Melton 2003; MacBean & Peylin 2014).

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

Two authors: (MacBean & Peylin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Nam et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Taxonomy
ISSN (online)	2118-9773
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