Journal article with 21 or more authors

In-text citations

Format: (First author et al., year, p. page)

Ex.: (Acernese et al., 2007, p. 5768)

In the reference list

The first nineteen authors, … the last author.

Format: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., … Author, Z. Z. (year). Title. Journal title in italicsvolume(issue), pages. https://doi.org/<doinumber>

Example 1 with Doi:

Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., Avino, S., Babusci, D., Ballardin, G., Barone, F., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bauer, T. S., Beauville, F., Bigotta, S., Birindelli, S., Bizouard, M. A., Boccara, C., Bondu, F., … Yvert, M. (2007). Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24(23), 5767-5775. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/24/23/003

Example 2 with article number or e-locator:

Adam, J., Adamová, D., Aggarwal, M. M., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawal, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahmad, S., Ahn, S. U., Aiola, S., Akindinov, A., Alam, S. N., Albuquerque, D. S. D., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alexandre, D., Alfaro Molina, R., Alici, A., Alkin, A., … Zmeskal, J. (2017). Determination of the event collision time with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The European Physical Journal Plus, 132(2), Artikkel 99. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11279-1

Note: DOI is the preferred information. If DOI or URL is missing, exclude this form the reference. If the URL points to a password restricted database, exlude the information.

Note: If information on volume or issue is missing, exclude this from the reference.

I EndNote

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Fill in the fields Author, Year, Title, Journal, Volume, Issue, Pages, DOI or URL (DOI is preferred)

Note: In Word, You’ll have to edit the author list manually. When you have finished inserting references, first choose Convert to plain text, then delete authors from the list and add … before the last author name.

I Zotero

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Fill in the fields Title, Author, Publication, Volume, Issue, Pages, Date, DOI or URL (DOI is preferred)

Note: Click the plus sign in the author field to add more authors.

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Last modified on: January 27th, 2022