How to format your references using the Myrmecological News citation style

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

Rey, F.A. 2013: Dengue virus: two hosts, two structures. – Nature 497: 443-444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burdyga, T. & Wray, S. 2005: Action potential refractory period in ureter smooth muscle is set by Ca sparks and BK channels. – Nature 436: 559-562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Knauth, L.P., Burt, D.M. & Wohletz, K.H. 2005: Impact origin of sediments at the Opportunity landing site on Mars. – Nature 438: 1123-1128.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weinstock, I.A., Barbuzzi, E.M., Wemple, M.W., Cowan, J.J., Reiner, R.S., Sonnen, D.M., Heintz, R.A., Bond, J.S. & Hill, C.L. 2001: Equilibrating metal-oxide cluster ensembles for oxidation reactions using oxygen in water. – Nature 414: 191-195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best, P. 2005: Implementing Value at Risk. – John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Liu, Z., Woodcock, J. & Zhu, H. eds. 2013: Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods: International Training School on Software Engineering, Held at ICTAC 2013, Shanghai, China, August 26-30, 2013, Advanced Lectures. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 283 p. 50 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Treschev, D. & Zubelevich, O. 2010: The Separatrix Map. In: Zubelevich, O. (Eds.): Introduction to the Perturbation Theory of Hamiltonian Systems. – Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75-92.

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 Myrmecological News.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014: Scientists Induce Lucid Dreaming With Electrical Stimulation. – 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 1990: Drug Abuse: Research on Treatment May Not Address Current Needs. –

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Webb, C.T. 2009: “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman. – PhD thesis, 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

Sisario, B. 2017: Keeping the Dream Kickin’. – New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rey 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Burdyga & Wray 2005, Rey 2013).

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

Two authors: (Burdyga & Wray 2005)
Three or more authors: (Weinstock & al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Myrmecological News
ISSN (print)	1994-4136
ISSN (online)	1997-3500
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