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

Zoback, M.D. 2000: Earth science. Strength of the San Andreas. – Nature 405: 31-32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hossfeld, U. & Olsson, L. 2002: Portraits of science. From the modern synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? – Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 55-56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhuime, B., Hawkesworth, C. & Cawood, P. 2011: Geochemistry. When continents formed. – Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 154-155.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Trujillo Bueno, J., Landi Degl’Innocenti, E., Collados, M., Merenda, L. & Manso Sainz, R. 2002: Selective absorption processes as the origin of puzzling spectral line polarization from the Sun. – Nature 415: 403-406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthys, W. & Lochman, J.E. 2016: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Childhood. – John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Moraglio, A., Silva, S., Krawiec, K., Machado, P. & Cotta, C. eds. 2012: Genetic Programming: 15th European Conference, EuroGP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 279 p. 91 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Mershin, A., Sanabria, H., Miller, J.H., Nawarathna, D., Skoulakis, E.M.C., Mavromatos, N.E., Kolomenskii, A.A., Schuessler, H.A., Luduena, R.F. & Nanopoulos, D.V. 2006: Towards Experimental Tests of Quantum Effects in Cytoskeletal Proteins. In: Tuszynski, J.A. (Eds.): The Emerging Physics of Consciousness. – The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 95-170.

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

Hale, T. 2017: Check Out This Trippy Video Of The “Glory Hole” Spillway In Lake Berryessa. – 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: Information Technology: Comments on Proposed OMB Guidance for Implementing the Government Paperwork Elimination Act. –

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hwang, Y.J. 2006: Three Essays on Economics and Risk Perception. – PhD thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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

Silver-Greenberg, J. & Protess, B. 2016: Gun Control Groups Find a Wealthy Ally in Big Law. – New York Times: BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoback 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zoback 2000, Hossfeld & Olsson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hossfeld & Olsson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Trujillo Bueno & al. 2002)

About the journal

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