How to format your references using the Journal for Nature Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for Nature 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

Tsapatsis, M. (2011). Materials science. Toward high-throughput zeolite membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 767–768.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galán, J. E., & Wolf-Watz, H. (2006). Protein delivery into eukaryotic cells by type III secretion machines. Nature, 444(7119), 567–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson, D. G., Parman, S. W., & Nowell, G. M. (2007). A link between large mantle melting events and continent growth seen in osmium isotopes. Nature, 449(7159), 202–205.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Noubissi, F. K., Elcheva, I., Bhatia, N., Shakoori, A., Ougolkov, A., Liu, J., Minamoto, T., Ross, J., Fuchs, S. Y., & Spiegelman, V. S. (2006). CRD-BP mediates stabilization of betaTrCP1 and c-myc mRNA in response to beta-catenin signalling. Nature, 441(7095), 898–901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherniakov, M. (2003). An Introduction to Parametric Digital Filters and Oscillators. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gerecht, S. (Ed.). (2011). Biophysical Regulation of Vascular Differentiation and Assembly (1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, H., Chen, G., Cai, L., & Yang, Y. (2016). Research of Large-Scale and Complex Agricultural Data Classification Algorithms Based on the Spatial Variability. In D. Li & Z. Li (Eds.), Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture IX: 9th IFIP WG 5.14 International Conference, CCTA 2015, Beijing, China, September 27-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (pp. 45–52). Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal for Nature Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 29). How Much Sugar Is It OK To Eat? IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1973). Role of Three Consultants in Award of Emergency School Assistance Program/Community Groups Grants (B-164031(1)). 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

Marroquin Salvador, M. D. (2017). Hypervelocity Impact of Spherical Aluminum 2017-T4 Projectiles on Aluminum 6061-T6 Multi-Layered Sheets [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Powell, M. (2017, June 10). From the Cavaliers, A Nifty Glimpse Of ‘What If?’ New York Times, SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsapatsis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Galán & Wolf-Watz, 2006; Tsapatsis, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Galán & Wolf-Watz, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Noubissi et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for Nature Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Nat. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1617-1381
Scope	Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation