How to format your references using the Herpetozoa citation style

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

Adam D (2001) UK changes policy on life insurance. Nature 414: 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedrich RW, Laurent G (2001) Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 889–894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hannon JB, Tersoff J, Tromp RM (2002) Surface stress and thermodynamic nanoscale size selection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 299–301.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang JJ, Hu JM, Ma J, Zhang JX, Chen LQ, Nan CW (2014) Full 180° magnetization reversal with electric fields. Scientific reports 4: 7507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell CA (2008) The One-Page Project Manager for it Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Itenberg I (2007) 35 Tropical Algebraic Geometry. Mikhalkin G, Shustin E (Eds). Birkhäuser, Basel, VIII, 104 p. 30 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Bayraktar E, Katundi D, Ayari F, Chevalier J-P, Bonnet F (2011) Damage Analysis of the Ceramic Reinforced Steel Matrix Composites Sheets: Experimental and Numerical Study. In: Proulx T (Ed.), Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY, 21–29.

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 Herpetozoa.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) 15 Relationship Facts Everybody Should Know Before Getting Married. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/15-relationship-facts-everybody-should-know-before-getting-married/ (October 30, 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 (1973) Possible Increased Use of the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) by Government Agencies. 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

Sakalli Gumus S (2008) Preparing teachers for partnering with families: Examining the impact of a specifically designed curriculum on professionals. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University

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

Liptak A, Wines M (2017) Justices Thwart Strict Voter ID Law That Unevenly Hurt Blacks. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2001, Friedrich and Laurent 2001).

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

Two authors: (Friedrich and Laurent 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Herpetozoa
ISSN (print)	1013-4425
ISSN (online)	2682-955X
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