How to format your references using the Acta Chiropterologica citation style

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

Swisher, S. N. 2000. Space station research: details please. Science (New York, N.Y.). 290: 453e–4e.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oncescu, V., and D. Erickson. 2013. High volumetric power density, non-enzymatic, glucose fuel cells. Scientific Reports. 3: 1226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rolland-Lagan, A.-G., J. A. Bangham, and E. Coen. 2003. Growth dynamics underlying petal shape and asymmetry. Nature. 422: 161–163.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, E., M. Marcucci, L. Daniell, M. Pypaert, O. A. Weisz, G.-C. Ochoa, K. Farsad, M. R. Wenk, and P. De Camilli. 2002. Amphiphysin 2 (Bin1) and T-tubule biogenesis in muscle. Science (New York, N.Y.). 297: 1193–1196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heines, M. H. 2014. First to File. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rewizorski, M., editor. 2015. The European Union and the BRICS: Complex Relations in the Era of Global Governance. Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 180 p. 3 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Scaradavou, A. 2014. Maternal HLA Typing and Cord Blood Unit Choice. Pp. 49–58, in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation (K. Ballen, ed.). . Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Chiropterologica.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2017. The Understandable Fear Of Nuclear Weapons Doesn’t Match Reality. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality/. Accessed October 30, 2018. IFLScience.

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. 2007. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirements Is Not Clear. 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

Werbeck, K.-U. 2012. From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. pp.

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

Myers, S. L. 2013. Challenger in Race for Moscow Mayor Says He Can Force a Runoff. New York Times. A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Swisher, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Swisher, 2000; Oncescu and Erickson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Oncescu and Erickson, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Chiropterologica
ISSN (print)	1508-1109
ISSN (online)	1733-5329
Scope