How to format your references using the Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. 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

Langer, R. 2001. Drug delivery. Drugs on target. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5527):58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun, F., He, S. 2014. Transformation magneto-statics and illusions for magnets. Scientific Reports, 4:6593.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kingon, A. I., Maria, J. P., Streiffer, S. K. 2000. Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices. Nature, 406(6799):1032–1038.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deng, Q., Averin, D. V., Amin, M. H., Smith, P. 2013. Decoherence induced deformation of the ground state in adiabatic quantum computation. Scientific Reports, 3:1479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M. R., Chhetri, A. B., Khan, M. M. 2010. The Greening of Petroleum Operations, Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9780470922378

An edited book

Cao, L., Zeng, Y., Symeonidis, A. L., Gorodetsky, V. I., Yu, P. S., Singh, M. P. (Eds.) 2013. Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 8th International Workshop, ADMI 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4-5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers,. Vol. 7607 Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer. p. XII, 217 p. 81 illus. ISBN: 9783642362873

A chapter in an edited book

Marques de Sá, J. P., Silva, L. M. A., Santos, J. M. F., Alexandre, L. A. 2013. MEE with Discrete Errors. In: L. M. A. Silva, J. M. F. Santos, L. A. Alexandre (Eds.). Minimum Error Entropy Classification,. p. 93–120 Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer. ISBN: 9783642290282

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 Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. , December 6 Fossils From Some Of The Earliest Four-Legged Animals Found In Scotland. , Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossils-from-some-of-the-earliest-fourlegged-animals-found-in-scotland/

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 2005. Student Financial Aid: Need Determination Could Be Enhanced through Improvements in Education’s Estimate of Applicants’ State Tax Payments (No. GAO-05-105), 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

Olch, R. 2010. Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre (Doctoral dissertation), California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Wines, M. 2017. , September 10 Anger Follows an Accusation of Voter Fraud. New York Times, p. A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Langer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Langer, 2001; Sun et He, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sun et He, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Deng et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
Abbreviation	Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendel. Brun.
ISSN (print)	1211-8516
ISSN (online)	2464-8310
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences