How to format your references using the The Condor citation style

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

Mackay, A. L. (2001). Character-building. Nature 410:19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turck, F., and G. Coupland (2011). Plant science. When vernalization makes sense. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331:36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mang, P. K., S. Larochelle, and M. Greven (2003). Condensed-matter physics: spurious magnetism in high-T(c) superconductor. Nature 426:139–40; discussion 140.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Wang, X., A. W. A. Kellner, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, Q. Wang, Y. Ma, Y. Paidoula, T. Rodrigues, H. Chen, J. M. Sayão, N. Li, et al. (2017). Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur. Science (New York, N.Y.) 358:1197–1201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halbich, I. W. (1993). Cape Fold Belt‐Agulhas Bank Transect Across Gondwana Suture, Southern Africa. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., p. 46.

An edited book

Dontchev, A. L. (2009). Implicit Functions and Solution Mappings: A View from Variational Analysis. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dede, E. M., J. Lee, and T. Nomura (2014). Electromechanical System Simulation and Optimization Studies. In Multiphysics Simulation: Electromechanical System Applications and Optimization (J. Lee and T. Nomura, Editors). Springer, London, pp. 61–187.

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 Condor.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016). Scientists Claim They’ve Solved What Makes The Bermuda Triangle So Deadly — But There’s A Problem. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-claim-theyve-solved-what-makes-the-bermuda-triangle-so-deadly-but-theres-a-problem/.

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 (1999). Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide. U.S. Government Printing Office AIMD-10.1.22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yi, Z. (2009). Dynamics of bio-membranes investigated by neutron spin echo: Effects of phospholipid conformations and presence of lidocaine.

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

Crow, K. (2002). The Mayor Of Greenwich Village. New York Times:144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackay 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mackay 2001, Turck and Coupland 2011).

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

Two authors: (Turck and Coupland 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Condor
Abbreviation	Condor
ISSN (print)	0010-5422
ISSN (online)	1938-5129
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics