How to format your references using the Naturae citation style

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

Sridhar D. 2012. — Health policy: Regulate alcohol for global health. Nature 482 (7385): 302

A journal article with 2 authors

Quinn P.K. & Bates T.S. 2011. — The case against climate regulation via oceanic phytoplankton sulphur emissions. Nature 480 (7375): 51–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Moyen J.-F., Stevens G. & Kisters A. 2006. — Record of mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the Barberton terrain, South Africa. Nature 442 (7102): 559–562

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paul K., Erhardt M., Hirano T., Blair D.F. & Hughes K.T. 2008. — Energy source of flagellar type III secretion. Nature 451 (7177): 489–492

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett M.K. 1995. — Affine and Projective Geometry. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Glau, K., Grbac, Z., Scherer, M. & Zagst, R. (Eds.) 2016. — Innovations in Derivatives Markets: Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and RegulationVol. 165. Cham, Springer International Publishing. X, 449 p. 68 illus., 43 illus. in color p. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics).

A chapter in an edited book

Nordbotten J.M. 2009. — Multiscale Methods for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, in Bercovier M., Gander M.J., Kornhuber R. & Widlund O. (eds.), Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XVIII. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. p. 39–50. (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering).

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 Naturae.

Blog post

Hale T. 2015. — Japan Will Open A Fully Robotic Lettuce Farm By 2017Available from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/japan-will-open-fully-robotic-lettuce-farm-2017/ [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 1994. — Education Reform: School-Based Management Results in Changes in Instruction and Budgeting N�HEHS-94-135. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wetherington J.M. 2010. — The relationship between learning organization dimensions and performance in the nonprofit sector Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ, University of Phoenix.

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

Barron J. 2017. — A Historic Home Burns, and Suspicions Spread. New York Times: A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sridhar 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Quinn & Bates 2011; Sridhar 2012).

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

Two authors: (Quinn & Bates 2011)
Three or more authors: (Paul et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Naturae
ISSN (online)	2553-8756
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