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

Selkoe, D. J. 2003. Folding proteins in fatal ways. - Nature 426: 900–904.

A journal article with 2 authors

Payne, J. L. and Wagner, A. 2014. The robustness and evolvability of transcription factor binding sites. - Science 343: 875–877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Curry, R., Dickson, B. and Yashayaev, I. 2003. A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades. - Nature 426: 826–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Y., Jia, Y.-C., Cui, K., Li, N., Zheng, Z.-Y., Wang, Y.-Z. and Yuan, X.-B. 2005. Essential role of TRPC channels in the guidance of nerve growth cones by brain-derived neurotrophic factor. - Nature 434: 894–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duckert, G. H. 2010. Practical Enterprise Risk Management. - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mukhamedov, F. 2015. Quantum Quadratic Operators and Processes (N Ganikhodjaev, Ed.). - Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lysko, A. A., Masonta, M. T. and Johnson, D. L. 2015. The Television White Space Opportunity in Southern Africa: From Field Measurements to Quantifying White Spaces. - In: Mishra, A. K. and Johnson, D. L. (eds), White Space Communication: Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing, pp. 75–116.

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

O`Callaghan, J. 2017. Highlights From SpaceX’s Latest Historic Rocket Launch And Landing. - 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 1994. GAO Work Related to ESEA of 1965.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Felix, R. C. 2015. Strengthening relationships for siblings in foster families: A grant proposal.

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

Feeney, K. 2008. Finding Farms To Share In. - New York Times: NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Selkoe 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Selkoe 2003, Payne and Wagner 2014).

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

Two authors: (Payne and Wagner 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Lindbergia
ISSN (online)	2001-5909
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