How to format your references using the Pacific Conservation Biology citation style

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

Duan L-M (2011) Physics. Quantum correlation between distant diamonds. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, 1213–1214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramsey JM, Chester FM (2004) Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture. Nature 428, 63–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Touboul M, Puchtel IS, Walker RJ (2015) Tungsten isotopic evidence for disproportional late accretion to the Earth and Moon. Nature 520, 530–533.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kay S, Hahn S, Marois E, Hause G, Bonas U (2007) A bacterial effector acts as a plant transcription factor and induces a cell size regulator. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, 648–651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goodman AH (2012) ‘Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Eaton C, Seegenschmiedt MH, Bayat A, Gabbiani G, Werker P, Wach W (Eds.) (2012) ‘Dupuytren’s Disease and Related Hyperproliferative Disorders: Principles, Research, and Clinical Perspectives.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Iacob C, Harrison R, Faily S (2014) Online Reviews as First Class Artifacts in Mobile App Development. In ‘Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: 5th International Conference, MobiCASE 2013, Paris, France, November 7-8, 2013, Revised Selected Papers’. (Eds G Memmi, U Blanke.) Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. pp. 47–53. (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 Pacific Conservation Biology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) Check Out This Gorilla’s Reaction To Seeing Other Gorillas On A Smartphone. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gorilla-captivated-images-other-gorillas-visitors-phone/ [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 (1987) NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System. IMTEC-87-38FS. 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

Sripinit T (2012) How Much Do We Understand About Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy? Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Novick SM (2014) A Twist on the Neighborhood Bar. New York Times, LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ramsey and Chester 2004; Duan 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ramsey and Chester 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kay et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific Conservation Biology
ISSN (print)	1038-2097
ISSN (online)	2204-4604
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