How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnobiology citation style

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

Oka, T. 2015. Vibrational Dynamics. Taming CH₅⁺, the “Enfant Terrible” of Chemical Structures. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347:1313–1314.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flanagan, J. R., and R. S. Johansson. 2003. Action Plans Used in Action Observation. Nature 424:769–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Horodecki, M., J. Oppenheim, and A. Winter. 2005. Partial Quantum Information. Nature 436:673–676.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Emilsson, V., M. Ilkov, J. R. Lamb, N. Finkel, E. F. Gudmundsson, R. Pitts, H. Hoover, V. Gudmundsdottir, S. R. Horman, T. Aspelund, L. Shu, V. Trifonov, S. Sigurdsson, A. Manolescu, J. Zhu, Ö. Olafsson, J. Jakobsdottir, S. A. Lesley, J. To, J. Zhang, T. B. Harris, L. J. Launer, B. Zhang, G. Eiriksdottir, X. Yang, A. P. Orth, L. L. Jennings, and V. Gudnason. 2018. Co-Regulatory Networks of Human Serum Proteins Link Genetics to Disease. Science (New York, N.Y.) 361:769–773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bailly, P. 2013. Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA.

An edited book

Simich, L., and L. Andermann (Eds.). 2014. Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

de Noya, B. A., and O. N. González. 2015. Clinical Aspects in Foodborne Chagas Disease. In Trypanosoma Cruzi as a Foodborne Pathogen, edited by O. González and L. J. Robertson, pp. 33–40. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 of Ethnobiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016, October 31. Tesla Unveils Solar Roof Tiles In Bid To Make Homes 100% Renewable. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tesla-unveils-solar-roof-tiles-in-bid-to-make-homes-100-renewable/. Accessed October 30, 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. Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program. 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

Zellner, K. M. 2008. An Examination of Grade Distribution Patterns and Grade Inflation at a Baccalaureate Nursing Program. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Vecsey, G. 2012, November 26. A Rivalry to Add to the City’s Rich History. 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 (Oka 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Flanagan and Johansson 2003, Oka 2015).

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

Two authors: (Flanagan and Johansson 2003)
Three or more authors: (Emilsson et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ethnobiology
ISSN (print)	0278-0771
ISSN (online)	2162-4496
Scope