How to format your references using the NeoBiota citation style

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

Bonesteel N (2000) Composite fermions pair up. Nature 406: 840–841.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sherkow JS, Greely HT (2013) Genomics. What if extinction is not forever? Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harmon JP, Moran NA, Ives AR (2009) Species response to environmental change: impacts of food web interactions and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 1347–1350.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Farsalinos KE, Spyrou A, Tsimopoulou K, Stefopoulos C, Romagna G, Voudris V (2014) Nicotine absorption from electronic cigarette use: comparison between first and new-generation devices. Scientific reports 4: 4133.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia JE (2011) Dynamic Economic Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Symeonidou S, Beauchamp-Pryor K (Eds) (2013) Purpose, Process and Future Direction of Disability Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, XIV, 134 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Maher MJ (2016) Resistance to Corruption of General Strategic Argumentation. In: Baldoni M, Chopra AK, Son TC, Hirayama K, Torroni P (Eds), PRIMA 2016: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: 19th International Conference, Phuket, Thailand, August 22-26, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 61–75.

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 NeoBiota.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Blue Whales Travel Enormous Distances. 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 (1997) National Airspace System: Issues in Allocating Costs for Air Traffic Services to DOD and Other Users. 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

Luse KM (2008) Invariants of knots, graphs, and Feynman diagrams. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Hansen K (2013) Even a Rock Star Has to Be Careful. New York Times: B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonesteel 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bonesteel 2000, Sherkow and Greely 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sherkow and Greely 2013)
Three or more authors: (Farsalinos et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	NeoBiota
ISSN (print)	1619-0033
ISSN (online)	1314-2488
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