How to format your references using the Conservation Physiology citation style

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

Kay RF (2015) Anthropology. New World monkey origins. Science 347: 1068–1069.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen Z-H, Schaap P (2012) The prokaryote messenger c-di-GMP triggers stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium. Nature 488: 680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora C, Rollo A, Tittensor DP (2013) Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science 341: 237.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kunkes EL, Simonetti DA, West RM, Serrano-Ruiz JC, Gärtner CA, Dumesic JA (2008) Catalytic conversion of biomass to monofunctional hydrocarbons and targeted liquid-fuel classes. Science 322: 417–421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon T, Grossman S (2007) Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schomburg D, Schomburg I, Chang A, eds. (2007) Class 2 • Transferases IX: EC 2.7.1.38–2.7.1.112, Second Edition. Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor EM, Rodríguez O. C, Velásquez JD, Ghosh G, Banerjee S (2013) Web Opinion Mining and Sentimental Analysis. In: Velásquez JD, Palade V, Jain LC, eds. Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 105–126.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) It’s Time To Speak Up About Noise Pollution In The Oceans. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/its-time-to-speak-up-about-noise-pollution-in-the-oceans/ (last accessed 30 October 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 (1989) Federal Research: Determination of the Best Qualified Sites for DOE’s Super Collider ( No. RCED-89-18). 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

Courtney SJ (2015) A Sea of Voices: An Alchemical Journey Through Dissociation (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Oppel RA Jr, Pérez-Peña R (2016) Chicago Releases Videos of Police Shootings. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kay, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Schaap, 2012; Kay, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Schaap, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kunkes et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Physiology
Abbreviation	Conserv. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	2051-1434
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