How to format your references using the Animal Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Conservation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Reichhardt, T. (2000). NASA pays the price of its dash for Mars. Nature 404, 535.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bainer, R., & Weaver, V. (2013). Cell biology. Strength under tension. Science 341, 965–966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koskinen, M. T., Haugen, T. O., & Primmer, C. R. (2002). Contemporary fisherian life-history evolution in small salmonid populations. Nature 419, 826–830.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Gessler, D., Dye, C., Farmer, P., Murray, M., Navin, T., Reves, R., Shinnick, T., Small, P. M., Yates, T., & Simpson, G. (2006). Public health. A National Tuberculosis Archive. Science 311, 1245–1246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattone, J., & Vaidya, N. (2016). Cultural Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fang, E. F., & Ng, T. B. (Eds.). (2013). Antitumor Potential and other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Adderley, R., Badii, A., & Wu, C. (2008). The Automatic Identification and Prioritisation of Criminal Networks from Police Crime Data. In Intelligence and Security Informatics: First European Conference, EuroISI 2008, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 3-5, 2008. Proceedings: 5–14. Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Larsen, H. L., Zeng, D. D., Hicks, D., & Wagner, G. (Eds.). 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 Animal Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 16). Watch What Happens When A Ball Of Red-Hot Nickel Is Placed On Floral Foam. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-what-happens-when-ball-red-hot-nickel-placed-floral-foam/

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. (1986). Designing Evaluations: A Workbook (No. 129366). 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

Boothe, C. S. (2012). The effects of prototype medium on the user’s overall perception of usability and ability to detect usability flaws (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Miranda, L.-M. (2017, October 16). Stephen Sondheim. New York Times: M2143, p. M2143.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt, 2000; Bainer & Weaver, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bainer & Weaver, 2013)
Three authors: (Koskinen, Haugen, & Primmer, 2002)
4 or more authors: (Gessler et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Conservation
ISSN (print)	1367-9430
ISSN (online)	1469-1795
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