How to format your references using the Cryptogamie, Bryologie citation style

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

Tutu D. 2011. — Genome-sequencing anniversary. My genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6018): 689

A journal article with 2 authors

Chinsamy A. & Elzanowski A. 2001. — Bone histology. Evolution of growth pattern in birds. Nature 412 (6845): 402–403

A journal article with 3 authors

Beal E.J., House C.H. & Orphan V.J. 2009. — Manganese- and iron-dependent marine methane oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5937): 184–187

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Storchová Z., Breneman A., Cande J., Dunn J., Burbank K., O’Toole E. & Pellman D. 2006. — Genome-wide genetic analysis of polyploidy in yeast. Nature 443 (7111): 541–547

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kushner R., Lawrence V. & Kumar S. 2013. — Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity. Oxford, John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Kunisch, K., Of, G. & Steinbach, O. (Eds.) 2008. — Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications: Proceedings of ENUMATH 2007, the 7th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Graz, Austria, September 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. XV, 826 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kosheleva O. 2007. — Towards Optimal Compression of Meteorological Data: A Case Study of Using Interval-Motivated Overestimators in Global Optimization, in Törn A. & Žilinskas J. (eds.), Models and Algorithms for Global Optimization: Essays Dedicated to Antanas Žilinskas on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Boston, MA, Springer US. p. 59–71. (Optimization and Its Applications).

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 Cryptogamie, Bryologie.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. — Enormous Magma Chamber Discovered Deep Below YellowstoneAvailable from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-magma-chamber-discovered-deep-below-yellowstone/ [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 1990. — Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain N^oNSIAD-90-142. 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

Duerr P.S. 2015. — Investigation of marine waterjet inlets during turning maneuvers Doctoral dissertation. Boca Raton, FL, Florida Atlantic University.

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

Protess B. 2017. — Trump Picks an Overseer of Derivatives Trading. New York Times: A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tutu 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chinsamy & Elzanowski 2001; Tutu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Chinsamy & Elzanowski 2001)
Three or more authors: (Storchová et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cryptogamie, Bryologie
ISSN (print)	1290-0796
ISSN (online)	1776-0992
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