How to format your references using the Lindbergia citation style

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

Kellermann, K. I. 2003. Obituary: Grote Reber (1911-2002). - Nature 421: 596.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oka, T. and McCall, B. J. 2011. Astronomy. Disclosing identities in diffuse interstellar bands. - Science 331: 293–294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Theise, N. D., Krause, D. S. and Sharkis, S. 2003. Comment on “Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells.” - Science 299: 1317; author reply 1317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weinstein, J. A., Jiang, N., White, R. A., 3rd, Fisher, D. S. and Quake, S. R. 2009. High-throughput sequencing of the zebrafish antibody repertoire. - Science 324: 807–810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan, P. 2005. GPRS in Practice. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tempo, R. 2013. Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems: With Applications (G Calafiore and F Dabbene, Eds.). - Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Iwata, H. and Shimada, K. 2013. Practice of Designing Cosmetics Formulations. - In: Shimada, K. (ed), Formulas, Ingredients and Production of Cosmetics: Technology of Skin- and Hair-Care Products in Japan. Springer Japan, pp. 113–217.

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 Lindbergia.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016. SpaceX Rocket Explosion Mystery Deepens With Sabotage Speculation. - 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 1991. The San Francisco Regional Office, 1954-1987: Interview With Harold J. D’Ambrogia, Kenneth A. Pollock, Richard A. Sheldon, and Charles F. Vincent.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Abraham, E. D. 2015. A mental health community outreach and education program for Nigerian immigrants: A grant writing project.

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

Billard, M. 2010. Embraceable Saris. - New York Times: E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kellermann 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kellermann 2003, Oka and McCall 2011).

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

Two authors: (Oka and McCall 2011)
Three or more authors: (Weinstein et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Lindbergia
ISSN (online)	2001-5909
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