How to format your references using the Austral Ecology citation style

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

Padian K. (2008) Darwin’s enduring legacy. Nature 451 , 632–634.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu G. & Long G. (2014) Universal nonadiabatic geometric gates in two-qubit decoherence-free subspaces. Sci. Rep.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dobson D. P., Meredith P. G. & Boon S. A. (2002) Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine. Science 298 , 1407–1410.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Price T. A. R., Hodgson D. J., Lewis Z., Hurst G. D. D. & Wedell N. (2008) Selfish genetic elements promote polyandry in a fly. Science 322 , 1241–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson M. (2010) A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Shen V. ed (2014) Dao Companion to Classical Confucian Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubler S., Derigent W., Rondeau É., Thomas A. & Främling K. (2013) Embedded Data on Intelligent Products – Impact on Real-Time Applications. In: Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (eds M. Matera & G. Rossi) Communications in Computer and Information Science. pp. 25–34 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 Austral Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2015) These Simulations Let You Visualize What It Would Look Like If The The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hit Your City. IFLScience. [online]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/these-simulations-let-you-visualize-effects-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-todays-cities/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (1998) Air Traffic Control: Weak Computer Security Practices Jeopardize Flight Safety. 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

Ponder K. (2017) Easing Stress by Helping Others: How Corporate Volunteer Programs Impact the Stress of Employees Within an Organization. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Hubbard B. (2017) Instead of Hero’s Welcome, Treason Charges. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padian 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Padian 2008; Xu and Long 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xu and Long 2014)
Three or more authors: (Price et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Austral Ecology
Abbreviation	Austral Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1442-9985
ISSN (online)	1442-9993
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science