How to format your references using the Aerobiologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerobiologia. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gu, L. (2003). Comment on “Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1505; author reply 1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaiha, G. D., & Brass, A. L. (2014). Immunology. The fiery side of HIV-induced T cell death. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6169), 383–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, S. P., Noone, D., & Bowen, G. (2015). WATER RESOURCES. Hydrologic connectivity constrains partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6244), 175–177.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wagner, J. R., Brunzelle, J. S., Forest, K. T., & Vierstra, R. D. (2005). A light-sensing knot revealed by the structure of the chromophore-binding domain of phytochrome. Nature, 438(7066), 325–331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney, S., & Francis, C. (2009). Honesty Sells. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Darrouzet, F., Keyser, J. D., & Pierrard, V. (Eds.). (2009). The Earth’s Plasmasphere: A CLUSTER and IMAGE Perspective. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bakhtadze, N. N., & Lototsky, V. A. (2016). Knowledge-Based Models of Nonlinear Systems Based on Inductive Learning. In P. Różewski, D. Novikov, N. Bakhtadze, & O. Zaikin (Eds.), New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-based Production (pp. 85–104). 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 Aerobiologia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 6). Some people think astrology is a science – here’s why. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/some-people-think-astrology-science-–-heres-why/. Accessed 30 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. (1997). FCC: Ka-Band Satellite Application and Licensing Procedure (No. OGC-98-15). 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

Gonzalez, R. (2010). A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal (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

Wilford, J. N. (2016, October 24). Antiquity on the Clock. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gu 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gaiha and Brass 2014; Gu 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gaiha and Brass 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wagner et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aerobiologia
Abbreviation	Aerobiologia (Bologna)
ISSN (print)	0393-5965
ISSN (online)	1573-3025
Scope	Plant Science Immunology Immunology and Allergy