How to format your references using the Natura Croatica citation style

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

Davis, R. J., 2003: Chemistry. All that glitters is not Au0. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5635), 926–927.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhoudt, D. N. & Crego-Calama, M., 2002: Synthesis beyond the molecule. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5564), 2403–2407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chandrappa, G. T., Steunou, N. & Livage, J., 2002: Materials chemistry: macroporous crystalline vanadium oxide foam. Nature 416(6882), 702.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cao, J., Cusanovich, D. A., Ramani, V., Aghamirzaie, D., Pliner, H. A., Hill, A. J., Daza, R. M., McFaline-Figueroa, J. L., Packer, J. S., Christiansen, L., Steemers, F. J., Adey, A. C., Trapnell, C. & Shendure, J., 2018: Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in thousands of single cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 361(6409), 1380–1385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirwan, M. J., 2013: Handbook of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Oxford.

An edited book

Fellows, M., Tan, X. & Zhu, B. (eds.), 2013: Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7924. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Györffy, B., 2007: Resistance-Associated Signatures in Breast Cancer. In: Dietel, M. (ed.), Targeted Therapies in Cancer. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 37–50.

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 Natura Croatica.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015: New Species of Extinct River Dolphin Discovered in Panama. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-extinct-river-dolphin-discovered-panama/ on 30 October 2018.: 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, 2000: State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing. 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

Le, D., 2015: L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC.: Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA: pp.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008: 3 Defining Opinions. New York Times WK4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Reinhoudt & Crego-Calama, 2002; Davis, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Reinhoudt & Crego-Calama, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natura Croatica
ISSN (print)	1330-0520
ISSN (online)	1848-7386
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