How to format your references using the The Auk citation style

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

Flicek, P. (2010). Journal club. A computational geneticist looks at mechanisms of chromosomal evolution. Nature 463:713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andrew, P., and W. L. Barnes (2004). Energy transfer across a metal film mediated by surface plasmon polaritons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306:1002–1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, A. M., C. M. Tingen, and T. K. Woodruff (2010). Sex bias in trials and treatment must end. Nature 465:688–689.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Lee, C.-F., D. A. Leigh, R. G. Pritchard, D. Schultz, S. J. Teat, G. A. Timco, and R. E. P. Winpenny (2009). Hybrid organic-inorganic rotaxanes and molecular shuttles. Nature 458:314–318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tian, J. (2005). Software Quality Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aerts, C. (2010). Asteroseismology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Nasdala, L., O. Beyssac, J. William Schopf, and B. Bleisteiner (2012). Application of Raman-based images in the Earth sciences. In Raman Imaging: Techniques and Applications (A. Zoubir, Editor). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 145–187.

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 The Auk.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). ALS Patient Communicates Again Thanks To First-Of-Its-Kind Brain Implant. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/als-patient-communicates-again-thanks-first-kind-brain-implant/.

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 (1994). Total Quality Education. U.S. Government Printing Office HEHS-94-76R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, Y.-J. (2010). Copying and summarizing: Possible tools to develop English reading and writing for university students of different proficiency levels in Korea.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times:D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flicek 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Andrew and Barnes 2004, Flicek 2010).

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

Two authors: (Andrew and Barnes 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Auk
Abbreviation	Auk
ISSN (print)	0004-8038
ISSN (online)	1938-4254
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics