How to format your references using the Australian Mammalogy citation style

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

Morr DK (2014). Physics. Lifting the fog of complexity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343, 382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langlais B, Amit H (2008). Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321, 1784–1785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer JC, Paillet M, Roth S (2005). Single-molecule torsional pendulum. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, 1539–1541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheah MT, Wachter A, Sudarsan N, Breaker RR (2007). Control of alternative RNA splicing and gene expression by eukaryotic riboswitches. Nature 447, 497–500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Budisa N (2005). ‘Engineering the Genetic Code’. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG)

An edited book

Agarwal RP (2014). ‘Oscillation and Stability of Delay Models in Biology’ Eds D O’Regan, SH Saker. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Marcal PV, Fong JT, Yamagata N (2016). A Macro Model for 3D Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites. In ‘Design and Analysis of Reinforced Fiber Composites’. (Eds PV Marcal, N Yamagata.) pp. 67–85. (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 Australian Mammalogy.

Blog post

Taub B (2016). Genetic Link Between Mental Illness And Drug Abuse Uncovered. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetic-link-between-mental-illness-drug-abuse-uncovered/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1991). Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Problems. T-RCED-91-89. 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

Foley JD (2012). Comparing Kac-Moody groups over the complex numbers and fields of positive characteristic via homotopy theory. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego La Jolla, 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

Poniewozik J (2017). Crossing to Grief’s Other Side. New York Times, C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morr 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Langlais and Amit 2008; Morr 2014).

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

Two authors: (Langlais and Amit 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cheah et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Mammalogy
Abbreviation	Aust. Mammal.
ISSN (print)	0310-0049
ISSN (online)	1836-7402
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics