How to format your references using the NeoBiota citation style

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

Wang Q (2015) China’s scientists must engage the public on GM. Nature 519: 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawson RI, Chiang E (2014) A class of warm Jupiters with mutually inclined, apsidally misaligned close friends. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346: 212–216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Traag VA, Krings G, Van Dooren P (2013) Significant scales in community structure. Scientific reports 3: 2930.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Noren AJ, Bierman PR, Steig EJ, Lini A, Southon J (2002) Millennial-scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch. Nature 419: 821–824.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Preber BJ (2014) Financial Expert Witness Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rice M, Shenoi S (Eds) (2016) 485 Critical Infrastructure Protection X: 10th IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference, ICCIP 2016, Arlington, VA, USA, March 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIV, 255 p. 62 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahsan M (2012) Women and Human Development in the Muslim World. In: Lovat T (Ed.), Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 43–60.

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 NeoBiota.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Animal Parenting: Mothers That Play Favorites, Why Whales Have Menopause, And Adults Who Have Sex With Infants. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/guest-blog-nature-sex-3/ (October 30, 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 (2006) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Ochoa-Bontemps RS (2012) Rebuilding the Broken Mirror: An Imaginal Approach to the Multicultural Self. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Hodara S (2016) Art in Plain English. New York Times: WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dawson and Chiang 2014, Wang 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dawson and Chiang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Noren et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	NeoBiota
ISSN (print)	1619-0033
ISSN (online)	1314-2488
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