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

Codispoti, L. A. 2010. Oceans. Interesting times for marine N2O. - Science 327: 1339–1340.

A journal article with 2 authors

Granick, S. and Bae, S. C. 2008. Chemistry. A curious antipathy for water. - Science 322: 1477–1478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Victor, D. G., Gerlagh, R. and Baiocchi, G. 2014. Climate policy. Getting serious about categorizing countries. - Science 345: 34–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oelgeschläger, M., Larraín, J., Geissert, D. and De Robertis, E. M. 2000. The evolutionarily conserved BMP-binding protein Twisted gastrulation promotes BMP signalling. - Nature 405: 757–763.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohan, N. 2014. Advanced Electric Drives. - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

2014. Mortality in an International Perspective (J Anson and M Luy, Eds.). - Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hiddink, G. A., Termorshuizen, A. J. and van Bruggen, A. H. C. 2010. Mixed Cropping and Suppression of Soilborne Diseases. - In: Lichtfouse, E. (ed), Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer Netherlands, pp. 119–146.

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

Luntz, S. 2016. Resource Scarcity Led To Ancient Violence. - 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 1999. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Progress in Improving Its Financial Condition Has Been Mixed.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spisak, G. M. 2012. Particulation.

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

Kelly, L. C. C. 1981. PEARL HARBOR’S INFAMY, MY FATHER’S FAME. - New York Times: 125.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Codispoti 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Granick and Bae 2008, Codispoti 2010).

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

Two authors: (Granick and Bae 2008)
Three or more authors: (Oelgeschläger et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Lindbergia
ISSN (online)	2001-5909
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