How to format your references using the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 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

Wyatt T.D. 2009. Fifty years of pheromones. Nature 457: 262–263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kosaka Y. & S.-P. Xie. 2013. Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial Pacific surface cooling. Nature 501: 403–407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gorb E.V., M.J. Baum & S.N. Gorb. 2013. Development and regeneration ability of the wax coverage in Nepenthes alata pitchers: a cryo-SEM approach. Sci. Rep. 3: 3078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bibikova M., K. Beumer, J.K. Trautman, et al. 2003. Enhancing gene targeting with designed zinc finger nucleases. Science 300: 764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li Y. 2015. “Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL.” Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Donelli G. (ed.). 2016. “Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Volume 1.” Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lauwers L. 2013. Semiconductor Technology Enabling Smart Electronics. In Proceedings of International Conference on VLSI, Communication, Advanced Devices, Signals & Systems and Networking (VCASAN-2013) Chakravarthi V.S., Shirur Y.J.M., & Prasad R., Eds. 15–24. New Delhi: Springer India.

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 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. IFLScience February 10, 2015 Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-how-rare-coral-snakes-venom-acts-its-victims/.

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. 1986. “[Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations].” 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

Hudson K.R. 2012. Student perception of teachers’ National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing dispositions. .

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

Chen D.W. & M.W. Walsh. 2014. City’s System for Pensions Shows Strain. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Abbreviation	Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0077-8923
ISSN (online)	1749-6632
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology