How to format your references using the Journal of Threatened Taxa citation style

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

Dehant, V. (2003). Planetary science. A liquid core for Mars? Science (New York, N.Y.) 300(5617): 260–261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joron, M. & P.M. Brakefield (2003). Captivity masks inbreeding effects on male mating success in butterflies. Nature 424(6945): 191–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, X., Y. Xu, & S.-I. Karato (2005). Water content in the transition zone from electrical conductivity of wadsleyite and ringwoodite. Nature 434(7034): 746–749.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wittmann, C.W., M.F. Wszolek, J.M. Shulman, P.M. Salvaterra, J. Lewis, M. Hutton, & M.B. Feany (2001). Tauopathy in Drosophila: neurodegeneration without neurofibrillary tangles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5530): 711–714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bard, J. & V.J. Kovarik Jr. (2007). Software Defined Radio. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Douglas, R.S., A.N. McCoy, & S. Gupta (Eds.) (2015). Thyroid Eye Disease. Springer, New York, NY, X, 157 p. 46 illus., 26 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Z., B. Zou, Q. Zhu, & P. Li (2013). Chinese Negation and Speculation Detection with Conditional Random Fields pp. 30–40. In: Zhou, G., J. Li, D. Zhao, & Y. Feng (Eds.). Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: Second CCF Conference, NLPCC 2013, Chongqing, China, November 15-19, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Threatened Taxa.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, January 7). ‘Ardi’ skull shows link to humans, not modern apes. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/‘ardi’-skull-shows-link-humans-not-modern-apes/ 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 (2012). Traffic Congestion: Road Pricing Can Help Reduce Congestion, but Equity Concerns May Grow. No. GAO-12-119. Washington, DC: 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

Alai, N.L. (2017). Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Marx, L. (2014, April 6). Saying ‘Yes’ Before a Studio Audience. New York Times, p. ST18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dehant, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dehant, 2003; Joron & Brakefield, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Joron & Brakefield, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wittmann et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Threatened Taxa
ISSN (print)	0974-7893
ISSN (online)	0974-7907
Scope