How to format your references using the Biological Conservation citation style

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

Lisse, C., 2015. PLANETARY SCIENCE. Comet Siding Spring, up close and personal. Science 350, 277–278.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld, N., Pace, N.R., 2013. Retrospective. Carl R. Woese (1928-2012). Science 339, 661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oerlemans, J., Dahl-Jensen, D., Masson-Delmotte, V., 2006. Ice sheets and sea level. Science 313, 1043–5; author reply 1043-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thomas, P.C., Veverka, J., Robinson, M.S., Murchie, S., 2001. Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros. Nature 413, 394–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosplock, K., 2017. The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fütterer, D.K., Damaske, D., Kleinschmidt, G., Miller, H., Tessensohn, F. (Eds.), 2006. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Guo, F., Mu, Y., Chen, Z., 2008. Efficient Batch Verification of Short Signatures for a Single-Signer Setting without Random Oracles, in: Matsuura, K., Fujisaki, E. (Eds.), Advances in Information and Computer Security: Third International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2008, Kagawa, Japan, November 25-27, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–63.

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 Biological Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Would You Wear A Smog Ring? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/would-you-wear-smog-ring/ (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, 2010. Aviation Safety: Improved Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities Are Needed as FAA Plans a Risk-Based Approach to Safety Oversight (No. GAO-10-414). 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

Hernandez, A.N., 2017. Connecting the Community: A Grant Proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Lyall, S., 2016. No Nobel Ceremony for Dylan. He’s Busy. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lisse, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Goldenfeld and Pace, 2013; Lisse, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goldenfeld and Pace, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Thomas et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Conservation
Abbreviation	Biol. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	0006-3207
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation