How to format your references using the Oryx citation style

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

Schiermeier, Q. (2002) Postdoc positions axed as economic crisis takes its toll. Nature, 420, 452.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eiben, A.E. & Smith, J. (2015) From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things. Nature, 521, 476–482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks-Pollock, E., Roberts, G.O. & Keeling, M.J. (2014) A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain. Nature, 511, 228–231.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, N., Huo, K., McDowell, M.T., Zhao, J. & Cui, Y. (2013) Rice husks as a sustainable source of nanostructured silicon for high performance Li-ion battery anodes. Scientific reports, 3, 1919.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldkamp, F.L. & Whalen, R.C. (2014) Financial Stability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Viigimaa, M., Vlachopoulos, C. & Doumas, M. (eds) (2015) Erectile Dysfunction in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide for Clinicians. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Mączkowski, G., Sitnik, R. & Krzesłowski, J. (2012) Data Acquisition Enhancement in Shape and Multispectral Color Measurements of 3D Objects. In Image and Signal Processing: 5th International Conference, ICISP 2012, Agadir, Morocco, June 28-30, 2012. Proceedings (eds A. Elmoataz, D. Mammass, O. Lezoray, F. Nouboud & D. Aboutajdine), pp. 27–35. 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 Oryx.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015) The Insane Moment A Hippo Tried To Attack A Boat Tour. IFLScience. IFLScience. Https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/incredible-moment-hippo-tries-attack-boat-tour0/ [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 (2010) Charter Schools: Education Could Do More to Assist Charter Schools with Applying for Discretionary Grants. 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

Bankas, J.K. (2014) CAFE—Community and Family Enrichment: Toward Community-Based Mental Health Support for Families. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Koblin, J. (2016) ‘Westworld’ Creators Speak of Seasons, Spoilers and Patience. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2002; Eiben & Smith, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Eiben & Smith, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oryx
Abbreviation	Oryx
ISSN (print)	0030-6053
ISSN (online)	1365-3008
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation