How to format your references using the Avian Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Avian Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nieto, M.A., 2013. Epithelial plasticity: a common theme in embryonic and cancer cells. Science 342, 1234850.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, W.R., Lin, K., 2003. Protein knots: A tangled problem. Nature 421, 25.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoffelen, J.-M., Oostenveld, R., Fries, P., 2005. Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction. Science 308, 111–113.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guccione, E., Bassi, C., Casadio, F., Martinato, F., Cesaroni, M., Schuchlautz, H., Lüscher, B., Amati, B., 2007. Methylation of histone H3R2 by PRMT6 and H3K4 by an MLL complex are mutually exclusive. Nature 449, 933–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West, B.J., Griffin, L.A., 2005. Biodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Adi, A., Stoutenburg, S., Tabet, S. (Eds.), 2005. Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: First International Conference, RuleML 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 10-12, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Odifreddi, P., 2013. 1994. In: Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Termini, S. (Eds.), Storie e Protagonisti Della Matematica Italiana: Per Raccontare 20 Anni Di «Lettera Matematica Pristem», I Blu. Springer, Milano, pp. 49–64.

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 Avian Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Molten lava meets a can of Coke [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/molten-lava-meets-can-coke/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2009. District of Columbia Public Schools: Implementation and Sustainability of Reform Efforts Could Benefit From Enhanced Planning ( No. GAO-09-902T). 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

Pulice, S.W., 2013. The colonized child: Love, community, and wholeness as necessary elements of education (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Wagner, J., 2017. One Lesson for d’Arnaud: Learning Not to Throw With ‘Too Much Arm.’ New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nieto, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Nieto, 2013; Taylor and Lin, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Lin, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Guccione et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Avian Research
Abbreviation	Avian Res.
ISSN (print)	2055-6187
ISSN (online)	2053-7166
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