How to format your references using the Oecologia Australis citation style

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

Fehr, E. 2004. The productivity of failures. Nature, 428(6984), 701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norio, P., & Schildkraut, C. L. 2001. Visualization of DNA replication on individual Epstein-Barr virus episomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2361–2364.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, S. C., Rabinovitch, P. S., & Kaeberlein, M. 2013. mTOR is a key modulator of ageing and age-related disease. Nature, 493(7432), 338–345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scheel, O., Zdebik, A. A., Lourdel, S., & Jentsch, T. J. 2005. Voltage-dependent electrogenic chloride/proton exchange by endosomal CLC proteins. Nature, 436(7049), 424–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesche, R. 2015. Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Celentano, D. D., & Beyrer, C. (Eds.). 2009. Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries: Epidemiology, Prevention and Care. New York, NY: Springer: p. XXII, 754 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Böhm, C., & Hofer, M. 2013. Error Correction Codes. In: M. Hofer (Ed.), Physical Unclonable Functions in Theory and Practice. pp. 87–102. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Oecologia Australis.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014, April 1. Why the Zebra Got Its Stripes. (Retrieved on October 30th, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-zebra-got-its-stripes/).

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. 1990. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. No. NSIAD-90-142; p. ed. 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

Hintz, L. 2015. Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey. Doctoral dissertation Washington, DC, George Washington 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

Binder, S. 2017, June 23. Mitch McConnell’s Wizardry. New York Times, p. A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fehr 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Norio & Schildkraut 2001, Fehr 2004).

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

Two authors: (Norio & Schildkraut 2001)
Three or more authors: (Scheel et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oecologia Australis
ISSN (print)	2177-6199
Scope	Ecology