How to format your references using the Movement Ecology citation style

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

1. Cramer K. Disextinction, Inc. Nature. 2000;405:127.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Miller TM, Cleveland DW. Medicine. Treating neurodegenerative diseases with antibiotics. Science. 2005;307:361–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kelbert A, Schultz A, Egbert G. Global electromagnetic induction constraints on transition-zone water content variations. Nature. 2009;460:1003–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Polynkin P, Kolesik M, Moloney JV, Siviloglou GA, Christodoulides DN. Curved plasma channel generation using ultraintense Airy beams. Science. 2009;324:229–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bagrintseva KI. Carbonate Reservoir Rocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Zhang D-P, editor. Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport and Signaling. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Carlier M-F, Helfer E, Wade R, Haraux F. Living Nanomachines. In: Boisseau P, Houdy P, Lahmani M, editors. Nanoscience: Nanobiotechnology and Nanobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 171–222.

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 Movement Ecology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Polar Bears:Climate Change Is A Bigger Threat Than Trophy Hunting [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bearsclimate-change-bigger-threat-trophy-hunting/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Review of Energy Research and Development Administration’s Requirements for Safety Analysis Reports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jun. Report No.: B-183920.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Waterman MA. Housing for the homeless mentally ill population: A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

1. Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Electric Utility Is Said to Be Near Debt Deal. New York Times. 2015 Sep 2;B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Movement Ecology
Abbreviation	Mov. Ecol.
ISSN (online)	2051-3933
Scope