How to format your references using the Animal Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Conservation. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Javerzat, J.-P. (2010). Molecular biology. Directing the centromere guardian. Science 327, 150–151.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zwierlein, M. W., & Ketterle, W. (2006). Comment on ‘Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas’. Science 314, 54; author reply 54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, L., Friedman, N., & Xie, X. S. (2006). Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level. Nature 440, 358–362.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Zhang, W., Tong, Y., Wang, H., Chen, L., Ou, L., Wang, X., Liu, G., & Zhu, Y. (2014). Emission of metals from pelletized and uncompressed biomass fuels combustion in rural household stoves in China. Sci. Rep. 4, 5611.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mason, R. P. (2013). Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tolan, P. H., & Leventhal, B. L. (Eds.). (2013). Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kotkasaari, T. (2008). Transboundary Cooperation Between Finland and Its Neighbouring Countries. In Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes: 123–141. Varis, O., Biswas, A. K., & Tortajada, C. (Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Animal Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 10). Could This Biochemist’s Veggie Burger Be The Closest Thing To Real Meat? IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-biochemists-veggie-burger-be-closest-thing-real-meat/

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. (2009). Telecommunications: Current Broadband Measures Have Limitations and New Measures Are Promising but Need Improvement (No. GAO-10-49). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Escobedo, K. (2017). Sana Mente Center (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016, September 30). Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times: C10, p. C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Javerzat, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zwierlein & Ketterle, 2006; Javerzat, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zwierlein & Ketterle, 2006)
Three authors: (Cai, Friedman, & Xie, 2006)
4 or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Conservation
ISSN (print)	1367-9430
ISSN (online)	1469-1795
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