How to format your references using the AMBIO citation style

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

Wynne, C. D. L. 2004. The perils of anthropomorphism. Nature 428: 606.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao, S., and R. S. Hegde. 2014. Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346: 701–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, T., H.-J. Werner, and U. Manthe. 2004. First-principles theory for the H + CH4 --> H2 + CH3 reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 2227–2229.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Bahr, C., L. von Paleske, V. V. Uslu, S. Remeseiro, N. Takayama, S. W. Ng, A. Murison, K. Langenfeld, et al. 2018. A Myc enhancer cluster regulates normal and leukaemic haematopoietic stem cell hierarchies. Nature 553: 515–520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, D. L. 2006. Practical Wastewater Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kauczor, H.-U., ed. 2009. MRI of the Lung. Medical Radiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerreiro, E. P., P. L. de O. Costa Neto, and U. M. Moreira Filho. 2014. Multidisciplinary Management: Model of Excellence in the Management Applied to Products and Services. In Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part III, ed. B. Grabot, B. Vallespir, S. Gomes, A. Bouras, and D. Kiritsis, 27–34. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. 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 AMBIO.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. From Farm To Pharmacy: Regulating Medicinal Cannabis In Australia. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 27.

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. Higher Education: Information Sharing Could Help Institutions Identify and Address Challenges Some Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Students Face. GAO-07-925. 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

Patel, D. S. 2017. GoSchoolPro: A Web Portal for the Students Using MVC Architecture and ASP.NET Framework. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Skurnick, L., M. Bai, E. Spitznagel, M. Batali, J. Gross, H. Reeves, S. Henig, M. Newton, et al. 2012. The One-Page Magazine. New York Times, August 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wynne 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Wynne 2004; Shao and Hegde 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shao and Hegde 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bahr et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	AMBIO
Abbreviation	Ambio
ISSN (print)	0044-7447
ISSN (online)	1654-7209
Scope	Ecology Environmental Chemistry General Medicine Geography, Planning and Development