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Scientific Style

Journal Article Format

Author(s). Date. Article title. Journal title. Volume(issue):location.

Article title: Capitalize only the first word, proper nouns, proper adjectives, acronyms, and initialisms. 29.3.7.1.2
Journal title: Capitalize all words (except for articles, conjunctions, and prepositions). 29.3.7.1.3
Location refers to the page number(s).

Journal Article 2 Authors

Reference In-text citation
Watts DE, Newsome SD. 2017. Exploitation of marine
      resources by wolves in southwestern Alaska. Journal
      of Mammalogy. 98(1):66-76.		 (Watts and Newsome 2017)
Use a comma to separate the names. 29.3.7.1.1 Use “and” to separate names. 29.2.1.2.4

 

Journal Article 3 to 10 Authors

Reference In-text citation
Brooks A, Hanke G, Foote C, Gillespie G, Bedard J. 2016.
       First records of finescale triggerfish (Balistes
       polylepis) and louvar (Luvarus imperialis) in British
       Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist. 97(1):7-
       12.		 (Brooks et al. 2016)
List all authors in the end reference. 29.3.7.1.1
Use italics for the Latin (scientific) name of a genus,
species, subspecies, or variety. 10.1.1.2		 Give the first author’s name followed by “et al.” 29.2.1.2.4

 

Journal Article More Than 10 Authors

Reference In-text citation
Richardson SM, Mitchell LA, Stracquadanio G, Yang K,
       Dymond JS, DiCarlo JE, Lee D, Huang CLV,
       Chandrasegaran S, Cai Y, et al. 2017. Design of a
       synthetic yeast genome. Science. 355(6329):1040-
       1044.		 (Richardson et al. 2017)
List the first 10 in the end reference, followed by “et al.”

 

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