How to format your references using the Conservation Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Conservation Genetics. 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

Cummer SA (2014) Applied physics. Selecting the direction of sound transmission. Science 343:495–496

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseev V, Lampert W (2001) Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia. Nature 414:899–901

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnarez C, Marrink SJ, Periole X (2013) Identification of cardiolipin binding sites on cytochrome c oxidase at the entrance of proton channels. Sci Rep 3:1263

A journal article with 5 or more authors

von Dassow G, Meir E, Munro EM, Odell GM (2000) The segment polarity network is a robust developmental module. Nature 406:188–192

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins D (2008) Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Aneva B, Kouteva-Guentcheva M (eds) (2015) Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards: Selected Papers from the International School and Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 November – 02 December, 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hongbo S, Liye C, Gang X, et al (2011) Progress in Phytoremediating Heavy-Metal Contaminated Soils. In: Sherameti I, Varma A (eds) Detoxification of Heavy Metals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–90

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 Conservation Genetics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) NASA’s Mission To Metal Asteroid Psyche Will Now Arrive Four Years Earlier. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-mission-to-metal-asteroid-psyche-will-now-arrive-four-years-earlier/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1996) Human Factors: Status of Efforts to Integrate Research on Human Factors Into FAA’s Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gilmore AG (2017) Quantification of oxidative reaction efficiencies for hydroxyl radical oxidized antibiotics. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) Saves Bring Paydays, but Their Value Is Subject to Debate. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cummer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Alekseev and Lampert 2001; Cummer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Alekseev and Lampert 2001)
Three or more authors: (von Dassow et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Genetics
Abbreviation	Conserv. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1566-0621
ISSN (online)	1572-9737
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics