How to format your references using the Asian Myrmecology citation style

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

Mace GM, 2014. Ecology. Whose conservation? Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6204): 1558–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greaves M, Maley CC, 2012. Clonal evolution in cancer. Nature 481(7381): 306–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Das G, Talukdar P, Matile S, 2002. Fluorometric detection of enzyme activity with synthetic supramolecular pores. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298(5598): 1600–1602.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Lawrence A et al., 2008. The innovative brain. Nature 456(7219): 168–169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi MH, 2010. Troubleshooting the Sequencing Batch Reactor. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ma H, 2012. China’s Energy Economy: Situation, Reforms, Behavior, and Energy Intensity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXII, 270 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sullivan Ashley Lauren, Sullivan A. L., 2016. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz. In: Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework (Miller, S, ed.), Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 63–80.

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 Asian Myrmecology.

Blog post

Andrew E, 2015. This Tree Can Grow Over 40 Different Kinds Of Fruit. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mysterious-tree-can-grow-over-40-different-kinds-fruit/ on 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, 1990. The Urban Underclass: Disturbing Problems Demanding Attention. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Dizon F, 2017. Treatment and Return to Play of Three Runners with Bone Stress Injury and/or Other Traits of a Male-Version of the Female Athlete Triad: A Case Series. 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

Crow K, 2000. Brando: Off the Waterfront, Into the Seminar Rooms. New York Times, December 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mace 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mace 2014; Greaves & Maley 2012).

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

Two authors: (Greaves & Maley 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lawrence et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Myrmecology
ISSN (print)	1985-1944
ISSN (online)	2462-2362
Scope