How to format your references using the European Journal of Taxonomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT). 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

Zeebe R.E. 2010. Journal club. A physicist and biogeochemist gets a kick out of the problem of Brownian motion and diffusion. Nature 466 (7310): 1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomassen M.J. & Kavuru M.S. 2014. Lung disease: Treatment by cell transplant. Nature 514 (7523): 438–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng H., Gerencser A.A. & Jasper H. 2015. Signal integration by Ca(2+) regulates intestinal stem-cell activity. Nature 528 (7581): 212–217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

De Hong C., Ren L.L., Yu H. & Qiang W. 2014. The role of dapoxetine hydrochloride on-demand for the treatment of men with premature ejaculation. Scientific reports 4: 7269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu P.P. 2006. RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wheeler D.S., Wong H.R. & Shanley T.P. (eds) 2014. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume 4: Peri-operative Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child. 2nd ed. 2014. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Pauli A., Alesi H. & Anderson S. 2005. The development of the HyShot flight program. In: Jiang Z. (ed.) Shock Waves: Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves Beijing, China July 11–16, 2004: 31–48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 European Journal of Taxonomy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. First United Nations Space Mission To Launch On A Space Plane In 2021. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-united-nations-space-mission-to-launch-in-2021/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 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 2005. Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems. 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

Thomas-Whitman D. 2012. Treading water: Civic engagement efforts in a time of budget crisis at a public university. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hay G. & Cyran R. 2011. Long Road Back for Greek Banks. New York Times: B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zeebe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zeebe 2010; Thomassen & Kavuru 2014).

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

Two authors: (Thomassen & Kavuru 2014)
Three or more authors: (De Hong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Taxonomy
ISSN (online)	2118-9773
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