How to format your references using the Phyllomedusa citation style

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

Schiermeier, Q. 2001. Bid to end EU’s transgenic impasse. Nature 413: 661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marx, F. G. and M. D. Uhen. 2010. Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327: 993–996.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi, C. H., M. Hiromura, and A. Usheva. 2003. Transcription factor IIB acetylates itself to regulate transcription. Nature 424: 965–969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu, Q., Y. Zhu, Y. Liu, N. Wang, and S. Chen. 2014. Cloning and characterization of wnt4a gene and evidence for positive selection in half-smooth tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis). Scientific reports 4: 7167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zanotto, E. D. 2013. Crystals in Glass. Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Crespi, G. and G. Dutrénit (eds.). 2014. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Development: The Latin American Experience. Cham. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Song, J. Y., J. Yu, and W. C. Chan. 2015. Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas. Pp. 97–123 in A.M. Evens and K.A. Blum (eds.), Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Pathology, Imaging, and Current Therapy. Cham. Springer International Publishing.

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 Phyllomedusa.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2017.The Blood Of Dragons Could Destroy Antibiotic Resistance.IFLScience.Accessible athttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blood-dragons-destroy-antibiotic-resistance/.Captured on30 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. 2004. Summary Analysis of Federal Commercial Aviation Taxes and Fees. GAO-04-406R. GAO-04-406R 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

Robinson, A. C. 2017. A Geophysical and Geological Characterization of the Bonanza 3D Survey, Claiborne Group, Saint Landry and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana.

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

Pilon, M. and G. Kolata. 2013. New to Most Fans, IGF-1 Has Long Been Banned as a Performance Enhancer. New York Times, January 30

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2001; Marx and Uhen 2010).

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

Two authors: (Marx and Uhen 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phyllomedusa
Abbreviation	Phyllomedusa
ISSN (print)	1519-1397
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology