How to format your references using the Management of Biological Invasions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Management of Biological Invasions (MBI). 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

Saltykov BG (2007) Russian science: breaking up is hard to do. Nature 449(7162): 536–537

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilks J, Golovkina T (2015) Immunology. Interfering with interferons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6219): 233–234

A journal article with 3 authors

Bormashenko E, Musin A, Grynyov R (2014) Scaling law governing the roughness of the swash edge line. Scientific reports 4: 6243

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Conboy IM, Conboy MJ, Wagers AJ, Girma ER, Weissman IL, Rando TA (2005) Rejuvenation of aged progenitor cells by exposure to a young systemic environment. Nature 433(7027): 760–764

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl B, Herrenknecht M, Maidl U, Wehrmeyer G (2011) Maschineller Tunnelbau im Schildvortrieb. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Klein SL, Roberts CW (eds) (2015) Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Facchini F, Trevisan F (2005) From National to Regional Criteria for H-LTOT. In: Negro RWD and Goldberg AI (eds), Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment in Italy: The Additional Value of Telemedicine, Springer, Milano, pp 27–41

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 Management of Biological Invasions.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Misuse Of Prescription Opioids Has More Than Doubled In the US In the Past Decade. IFLScience, IFLScience, (accessed 30 October 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 (2005) Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. 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

Meluzzi D (2013) Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin. Doctoral dissertation, La Jolla, CA, University of California San Diego

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

Corkery M (2017) Deep Debt and Rivals Push Toy Chain Into Bankruptcy. New York Times, 19 September, page B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Saltykov 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Saltykov 2007; Wilks and Golovkina 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wilks and Golovkina 2015)
Three or more authors: (Conboy et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Management of Biological Invasions
ISSN (online)	1989-8649
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