How to format your references using the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
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Jahn R. 2006. Neuroscience. A neuronal receptor for botulinum toxin. Science 312: 540–541.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Sheppard S.S. & C.A. Trujillo. 2010. Detection of a trailing (L5) Neptune Trojan. Science 329: 1304.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Taylor A.H., J.I. Allen & P.A. Clark. 2002. Extraction of a weak climatic signal by an ecosystem. Nature 416: 629–632.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Rooker J.R., D.H. Secor, G. De Metrio, et al. 2008. Natal homing and connectivity in Atlantic bluefin tuna populations. Science 322: 742–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Hanzo L., R.G. Maunder, J. Wang, et al. 2010. “Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding.” Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
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Billinton R., R. Karki & A.K. Verma (eds.). 2013. “Reliability and Risk Evaluation of Wind Integrated Power Systems.” New Delhi: Springer India.
A chapter in an edited book
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Cao Z. 2007. A Complete Probabilistic Belief Logic. In Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, CLIMA VII, Hakodate, Japan, May 8-9, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Inoue K., Satoh K., & Toni F., Eds. 80–94. 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 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Blog post
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Andrew E. 2014.IFLScience June 26, 2014 Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ten-weird-and-terrifying-medical-instruments-past/.

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
1.
Government Accountability Office. 1989. “State Department: Problems in the Diplomatic Courier System.” 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
1.
Johnson R. 2010. Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody.” .

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
1.
Leland T. by J. 2016. Wildlife in Captivity. New York Times MB8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference 1.
This sentence cites two references 1,2.
This sentence cites four references 1–4.

About the journal

Full journal titleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
AbbreviationAnn. N. Y. Acad. Sci.
ISSN (print)0077-8923
ISSN (online)1749-6632
ScopeHistory and Philosophy of Science
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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