How to format your references using the Amphibia-Reptilia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Amphibia-Reptilia (AMRE). 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

Kaufman, F. (2012): Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water. Nature 490: 469–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moskovitz, C., Kellogg, D. (2011): Science education. Inquiry-based writing in the laboratory course. Science 332: 919–920.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aggarwal, P.K., Basu, A.R., Kulkarni, K.M. (2003): Comment on ‘Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh’ (I). Science 300: 584; author reply 584.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

DiAntonio, A., Haghighi, A.P., Portman, S.L., Lee, J.D., Amaranto, A.M., Goodman, C.S. (2001): Ubiquitination-dependent mechanisms regulate synaptic growth and function. Nature 412: 449–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qu, D. (2016): Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Belafsky, P.C. (2014): The Clinician’s Guide to Swallowing Fluoroscopy. New York, NY, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Merkulovs, D., Dekhtyar, Y., Vilitis, O., Shipkovs, P., Merkulova, V. (2015): Cylindrical Cell-Based Refractometers to Analyse Biomedical Liquids. In: First European Biomedical Engineering Conference for Young Investigators: ENCY2015, Budapest, May 28 - 30, 2015, p. 16–19. Jobbágy, Á., Ed. Singapore, 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 Amphibia-Reptilia.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016): These Bees Pulled Strings To Prove They Can Learn And Share New Skills. 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 (2003): Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Comments on Recent GAO Report on its Enterprise Architecture Efforts. 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

Aparicio, E.M. (2015): Examining Latina/o STEM degree aspirations. Doctoral dissertation thesis, 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

Feeney, K. (2010): Only Soy Died for These Dishes. New York Times NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaufman, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Moskovitz and Kellogg, 2011; Kaufman, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Moskovitz and Kellogg, 2011)
Three authors: (Aggarwal, Basu, and Kulkarni, 2003)
4 or more authors: (DiAntonio et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Amphibia-Reptilia
Abbreviation	Amphib-reptil.
ISSN (print)	0173-5373
ISSN (online)	1568-5381
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology