How to format your references using the Emu - Austral Ornithology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Emu - Austral Ornithology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Paulsson J (2004). Summing up the noise in gene networks. Nature 427, 415–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clementz MT, Sewall JO (2011). Latitudinal gradients in greenhouse seawater δ(18) O: evidence from Eocene sirenian tooth enamel. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, 455–458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chabanov AA, Stoytchev M, Genack AZ (2000). Statistical signatures of photon localization. Nature 404, 850–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson ME, Viggiano L, Bailey JA, Abdul-Rauf M, Goodwin G, Rocchi M, Eichler EE (2001). Positive selection of a gene family during the emergence of humans and African apes. Nature 413, 514–519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quéguiner B (2016). ‘The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean’. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Ryan M (Ed.) (2012). ‘Reflections on Learning, Life and Work: Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career’. (SensePublishers: Rotterdam)

A chapter in an edited book

Klein JA, Lee FT, Hinshaw JL, Lubner MG, Brace CL (2013). Overview of Thermal Ablation Devices: Microwave. In ‘Interventional Radiology Techniques in Ablation’. (Eds T Clark, T Sabharwal.) pp. 21–28. (Springer: London)

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 Emu - Austral Ornithology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015). Cooking The Books: When That Sensational New Research Finding Isn’t All It Seems. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cooking-books-when-sensational-new-research-finding-isn-t-all-it-seems/ [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 (2005). Medicaid: States’ Efforts to Maximize Federal Reimbursements Highlight Need for Improved Federal Oversight. GAO-05-836T. 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

Hertzman R (2013). Yemen’s migrant networks as critical factor in political opposition to the Imamate. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ.

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

Feeney K (2007). Order at the Court. New York Times, 14NJ19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Paulsson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Paulsson 2004; Clementz and Sewall 2011).

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

Two authors: (Clementz and Sewall 2011)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emu - Austral Ornithology
Abbreviation	Emu
ISSN (print)	0158-4197
ISSN (online)	1448-5540
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation