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

Alberts B. (2011) Editor’s Note. Science.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peebles P. J. E. & Nusser A. (2010) Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution. Nature 465 , 565–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldner A., Herold N. & Huber M. (2014) Antarctic glaciation caused ocean circulation changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature 511 , 574–577.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sachs K., Perez O., Pe’er D., Lauffenburger D. A. & Nolan G. P. (2005) Causal protein-signaling networks derived from multiparameter single-cell data. Science 308 , 523–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kizer G. (2013) Digital Microwave Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Michelson G. ed (2015) Teleophthalmology in Preventive Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Koch T. (2006) Rapid Mathematical Programming or How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles in a Few Seconds. In: Operations Research Proceedings 2005: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Bremen, September 7–9, 2005 (eds H.-D. Haasis, H. Kopfer, & J. Schönberger) Operations Research Proceedings. pp. 21–26 Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Taub B. (2016) Chimps Feel Decidedly “Meh’ Towards Others. IFLScience. [online]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-feel-decidedly-meh-towards-others/ [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 (2003) DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified. 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

Wonnacott C. J. (2017) Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia. 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

Hollander S. (2000) Still a Fan Favorite. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alberts 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Alberts 2011; Peebles and Nusser 2010).

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

Two authors: (Peebles and Nusser 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sachs et al. 2005)

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

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