How to format your references using the Folia Biologica citation style

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

Skipper M. (2015) Evolution: Finches sequenced. Nature 518, 308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elsner C., Abel B. (2014) Ultrafast high-resolution mass spectrometric finger pore imaging in latent finger prints. Sci. Rep. 4, 6905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue H.-J., Li W.-Z., Yang X.-K. (2014) Assortative mating between two sympatric closely-related specialists: inferred from molecular phylogenetic analysis and behavioral data. Sci. Rep. 4, 5436.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Veneti Z., Bentley J. K., Koana T., Braig H. R., Hurst G. D. D. (2005) A functional dosage compensation complex required for male killing in Drosophila. Science 307, 1461–1463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory J. (2014) Central Counterparties. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rhodes J. (2015) Boolean Representations of Simplicial Complexes and Matroids, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, (ed. Silva P. V.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Roşu G., Chen F., Ball T. (2008) Synthesizing Monitors for Safety Properties: This Time with Calls and Returns. In: Runtime Verification: 8th International Workshop, RV 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 30, 2008. Selected Papers, ed. Leucker M., pp. 51–68, 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 Folia Biologica.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2014) Watch Two Astronauts Live On Their Spacewalk Outside The ISS. IFLScience.

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 (1988) Highway Contracting: Assessing Fraud and Abuse in FHwA’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. 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

Schellenberg D. L. (2010) Divorced women, poverty, and the Social Security Act: A policy analysis. 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

Feeney K. (2006) QUICK BITE/Elizabeth; Warming Up to Sausage and Dogs. New York Times, 14NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Skipper 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Skipper 2015; Elsner and Abel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Elsner and Abel 2014)
Three or more authors: (Veneti et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Folia Biologica
ISSN (print)	0015-5500
ISSN (online)	2533-7602
Scope