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

Finkelstein J (2009). Metalloproteins. Nature 460, 813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu P, Werb Z (2008). Patterning mechanisms of branched organs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, 1506–1509.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaucher EA, Govindarajan S, Ganesh OK (2008). Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins. Nature 451, 704–707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu K-M, Lu Y-H, Feng H-Q, Jiang Y-Y, Zhao J-Z (2008). Suppression of cotton bollworm in multiple crops in China in areas with Bt toxin-containing cotton. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321, 1676–1678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wesche R (2015). ‘Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors’. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Arik S, Huang T, Lai WK, Liu Q (Eds.) (2015). ‘Neural Information Processing: 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings Part III’ 1st ed. 2015. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Andréka H, Németi I (2015). Finite-Variable Logics Do Not Have Weak Beth Definability Property. In ‘The Road to Universal Logic: Festschrift for the 50th Birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau Volume II’. (Eds A Koslow, A Buchsbaum.) Studies in Universal Logic. pp. 125–133. (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

Andrew E (2015). Researchers Have Developed A Stretchable Loudspeaker. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-have-developed-cool-stretchable-loudspeaker/ [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 (2008). Surface Transportation: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Restructure Current Program. GAO-08-478T. 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

Wilkerson MR (2011). The Relationship Between Caring School Community Program Implementation and Elementary Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University St. Charles, MO.

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

Mahler J, Confessore N (2015). Puerto Rico’s Pricey Struggle. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Werb 2008; Finkelstein 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Werb 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2008)

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