For anole biologists and enthusiasts, there are several ways to keep up with the latest and greatest anole research. These include RSS feeds, social media outlets such as Twitter, and email alerts from websites like Google Scholar (or from Anole Annals! – see the box on the right-hand side of this page). Nonetheless, the amount of literature that already exists on our beloved anoles can sometimes seem overwhelming. Modern search engines have made identifying this work easier than ever before, and we believe that continuing to promote the visibility and accessibility of anole literature will only strengthen our research community. With that in mind, we have created a resource that we hope will be helpful to those of us who spend our time steeped in anole literature.
The resource is a bibliography of Anolis literature, through the end of 2016, which we have compiled via searches of manuscript databases and manual curation. Here are some things you should know:
- We intend to update the bibliography at the end of each calendar year. Thus papers published in 2017 will appear early in 2018.
- The bibliography certainly contains errors and omissions. You can help us improve it! The file used to generate the collection can be downloaded, edited, or updated on GitHub. Any suggested edits will be sent to us for approval, and we’re excited for those start coming in.
- The bibliography is a BibTeX file, a format used by the Latex markup language. Free software like Bibdesk, JabRef, and BibTool can be used to open BibTex files directly.
Lastly, and most importantly:
- Most major citation software packages (e.g. Endnote, Papers, Mendeley, Zotero) can import BibTeX files. By importing the BibTeX filed used to generate this bibliography into your own citation manager, you can have the full value of this collection at your fingertips. Major benefits of doing so include the ability to easily search and filter within the bibliography, and of course, to instantaneously generate a list of citations from any subset of the full list.
We hope that AA readers will find this resource useful. We also look forward to hearing your suggestions for its improvement! Lastly, we’d like to thank members of the Losos Lab for assisting with the construction and curation of the collection.
This post was co-written by Anthony Geneva and Nick Herrmann.
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Peter Uetz
Thanks Anthony and Nick — That’s a great resource!
It seems that your bibliography seems to start in 1859, when already 40+ anoles had been described. I just submitted a manuscript to Zootaxa that has a supplement with a list of all reptiles and their subspecies (13,047 taxa) AND their original citations. That list includes the 500+ anoles and their subspecies and their original references, including those pre-1859 ones, just in case anyone is interested 🙂
Anthony Geneva
Hi Peter – thanks for pointing out your Zootaxa manuscript, that sounds like an incredible resource! I would love to include the descriptions of all anole descriptions into the bibliography. It’s fairly straightforward to convert any delimited file format into LaTeX, so I will keep my eye out for the paper (and it’s supplement) to update our list.
Chris Thawley
Wow, I’m sure this was a bunch of work, and what a great resource!