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

Nelson W. J. (2003) Adaptation of core mechanisms to generate cell polarity. Nature 422 , 766–774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kasparian J. & Wolf J.-P. (2009) Applied physics. Laser beams take a curve. Science 324 , 194–195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubert J., Finlay C. C. & Fournier A. (2013) Bottom-up control of geomagnetic secular variation by the Earth’s inner core. Nature 502 , 219–223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fabrizio P., Pozza F., Pletcher S. D., Gendron C. M. & Longo V. D. (2001) Regulation of longevity and stress resistance by Sch9 in yeast. Science 292 , 288–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu P. P. (2011) Embedded SoPC Design with Nios II Processor and VHDL Examples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gu D.-W. (2013) Robust Control Design with MATLAB®. 2nd ed. 2013. (eds P. H. Petkov & M. M. Konstantinov). Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

De George R. T. (2014) Democracy as a Social Myth. In: Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century (eds A. E. Cudd & S. J. Scholz) AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. pp. 43–54 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. (2013) Voyager 1: Boldly Going Where No Man-Made Object Has Gone Before. IFLScience. [online]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/voyager-1-boldly-going-where-no-man-made-object-has-gone/ [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 (1985) Relocation of the Western Executive Seminar Center. 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

Mackay E. A. (2009) Title I funding allocation of reserve funds after increased standards for academic proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Schmitt E. & Qiu L. (2017) Digging Into Argument For a Wall on the Border. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Nelson 2003; Kasparian and Wolf 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kasparian and Wolf 2009)
Three or more authors: (Fabrizio et al. 2001)

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