How to format your references using the EXCLI Journal citation style

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

Scodeggio M. Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation. Science. 2001;294:537–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunauer R, Kennedy BK. Medicine. Progeria accelerates adult stem cell aging. Science. 2015;348:1093–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonderer LJ, Studart AR, Gauckler LJ. Bioinspired design and assembly of platelet reinforced polymer films. Science. 2008;319:1069–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Couder Y, Protière S, Fort E, Boudaoud A. Dynamical phenomena: walking and orbiting droplets. Nature. 2005;437:208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Will H. »Sei naiv und mach’ ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Jansen M. Second Generation Wavelets and Applications. Oonincx P, editor. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Aleman MM. Impact of TRIPS-Plus Obligations in Economic Partnership- and Free Trade Agreements on International IP Law. In: Drexl J, Grosse Ruse-Khan H, Nadde-Phlix S, editors. EU Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property: For Better or Worse? Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 61–85. (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law).

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 EXCLI Journal.

Blog post

Hale T. This Massive Floating Robot Looks Awesomely Awkward. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-massive-floating-robot-looks-awesomely-awkward/. 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. Intelligent Transportation Systems: Urban and Rural Transit Providers Reported Benefits but Face Deployment Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jun. Report No.: GAO-16-638.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pham HD. Determination of Default Probability in Auto Finance through Predictive Analytics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Barron J. M.T.A.’s $1 Million Prizes Are at End of the Tunnel. New York Times. 2017;A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scodeggio 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Scodeggio 2001; Brunauer and Kennedy 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brunauer and Kennedy 2015)
Three or more authors: (Couder et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	EXCLI Journal
ISSN (online)	1611-2156
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