How to format your references using the Acta Biologica Sibirica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Biologica Sibirica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Forde A (2006) Careers in systems biology. A meeting of minds, expertise, and imagination. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 1306–1307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guillette LJ Jr, Iguchi T (2012) Ecology. Life in a contaminated world. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 1614–1615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mellor J, Nicoll RA, Schmitz D (2002) Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation by presynaptic Ih channels. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 143–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tolstoy M, Waldhauser F, Bohnenstiehl DR, Weekly RT, Kim W-Y (2008) Seismic identification of along-axis hydrothermal flow on the East Pacific Rise. Nature 451: 181–184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulinkovich OG (2015) Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rao MS (Ed.) (2006) Neural Development and Stem Cells. Second Edition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 468p. 84 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu M, Tam HP, Jen T-H (2016) Classical Test Theory. In: Tam HP, Jen T-H (Eds), Educational Measurement for Applied Researchers: Theory into Practice. Springer, Singapore, 73–90.

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 Acta Biologica Sibirica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Some Corals are Already Adapting to Warmer Oceans. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/some-corals-are-already-adapting-warmer-oceans/ (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 (1992) Remedial Education: Modifying Chapter 1 Formula Would Target More Funds to Those Most in Need. 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

Crawford JD (2017) Teacher Job Satisfaction as Related to Student Performance on State-Mandated Testing. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University

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

Williams J (2017) Books of Wonder Coming to West Side. New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forde 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Forde 2006, Guillette and Iguchi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Guillette and Iguchi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tolstoy et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Biologica Sibirica
ISSN (online)	2412-1908
Scope