How to format your references using the Phyllomedusa citation style

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

Dickson, D. 2000. Unesco backs “science for debt” plan. Nature 404: 911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dynek, J. N. and S. Smith. 2004. Resolution of sister telomere association is required for progression through mitosis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304: 97–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merilä, J., L. E. Kruuk, and B. C. Sheldon. 2001. Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature 412: 76–79.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bowen, G. J., W. C. Clyde, P. L. Koch, S. Ting, J. Alroy, T. Tsubamoto, Y. Wang, and Y. Wang. 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 2062–2065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles, R. 2012. 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Oxford, UK. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Linkov, I., E. Ferguson, and V. S. Magar (eds.). 2008. Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors. Dordrecht. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Amengual, E., A. Mas, and A. L. Mesquida. 2010. Team SPICE: A SPICE-Based Teamwork Assessment Model. Pp. 37–47 in A. Riel, R. O’Connor, S. Tichkiewitch, and R. Messnarz (eds.), Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement: 17th European Conference, EuroSPI 2010, Grenoble, France, September 1-3, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer.

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 Phyllomedusa.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2017.Does Torture Actually Work?IFLScience.Accessible athttps://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/does-torture-actually-work/.Captured on30 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. 2003. National Airspace System: Reauthorizing FAA Provides Opportunities and Options to Address Challenges. GAO-03-473T. GAO-03-473T Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mazgaeen, L. 2017. Differential RNAi Approaches to Enhance Knockdown Efficiency of Target Gene Transcripts in the Highly DDT-Resistant 91-R Strain of Drosophila melanogaster. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois 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

Wilson, M. 2017. Trump Returns Home After 3 Months Away To Stay for 4 Hours. New York Times, May 4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson 2000; Dynek and Smith 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dynek and Smith 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bowen et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phyllomedusa
Abbreviation	Phyllomedusa
ISSN (print)	1519-1397
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology