How to format your references using the Myrmecological News citation style

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

Kemp, M. 2001: The harmonious hand. Marin Mersenne and the science of memorized music. – Nature 409: 666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J. & Bradford, M. 2006: 2006 Visualization Challenge. – Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hess, K.L., Corda, C.J. & Lanese, K.M. 2011: SPORE series winner. Science Buddies: advancing informal science education. – Science (New York, N.Y.) 332: 550-551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mizuguchi, S., Uyama, T., Kitagawa, H., Nomura, K.H., Dejima, K., Gengyo-Ando, K., Mitani, S., Sugahara, K. & Nomura, K. 2003: Chondroitin proteoglycans are involved in cell division of Caenorhabditis elegans. – Nature 423: 443-448.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G. & Broniatowski, M. 2016: Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhao, M. 2011: The Boundary Theory of Phase Diagrams and Its Application: Rules for Phase Diagram Construction with Phase Regions and Their Boundaries. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 300 p. 63 illus., 3 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández, J.F.G. & Márquez, A.C. 2012: Techniques and Tools for Maintenance Management. In: Crespo Márquez, A. (Eds.): Maintenance Management in Network Utilities: Framework and Practical Implementation. – Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London, pp. 85-123.

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 Myrmecological News.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014: Planet Spotted Forming In Binary System. – 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 2008: Surface Transportation Programs: Proposals Highlight Key Issues and Challenges in Restructuring the Programs. –

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, S.A. 2009: Development of an age-appropriate, facility-specific nutrition screening and assessment tool for the elderly. – PhD thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Wagner, J. 2017: Yankees Ride Out Chapman’s Latest Turbulence and Rebuff the Mets Again. – New York Times: B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kemp 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kemp 2001, Nesbit & Bradford 2006).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit & Bradford 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mizuguchi & al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Myrmecological News
ISSN (print)	1994-4136
ISSN (online)	1997-3500
Scope