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

Featherstone, D. 2009. Journal club. A neuroscientist argues for a broader approach to brain mapping. Nature 458: 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keinan, A. and A. G. Clark. 2012. Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 740–743.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffman, B. D., C. Grashoff, and M. A. Schwartz. 2011. Dynamic molecular processes mediate cellular mechanotransduction. Nature 475: 316–323.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, Z., J. Appenzeller, Y.-M. Lin, J. Sippel-Oakley, A. G. Rinzler, J. Tang, S. J. Wind, P. M. Solomon, and P. Avouris. 2006. An integrated logic circuit assembled on a single carbon nanotube. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 1735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holsclaw, G. 2016. Transcending Subjects. Chichester, UK. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vetulani, Z. and H. Uszkoreit (eds.). 2009. Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society: Third Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2007, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nedjah, N. and L. de M. Mourelle. 2006. Evolutionary Pattern Matching Using Genetic Programming. Pp. 81–104 in N. Nedjah, L. de M. Mourelle, and A. Abraham (eds.), Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences. Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer.

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

Andrew, E. 2015.Curbing Cow Burps Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.IFLScience.Accessible athttps://www.iflscience.com/environment/curbing-cow-burps-could-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/.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. 2012. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges. GAO-12-1011T. GAO-12-1011T 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

Sikorsky, A. A. 2014. Concentration enhancement and device fabrication for the improved performance of gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Wagner, J. 2016. After Striking Out, Nationals Swing a Trade. New York Times, December 8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Featherstone 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Featherstone 2009; Keinan and Clark 2012).

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

Two authors: (Keinan and Clark 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2006)

About the journal

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