How to format your references using the Conservation Genetics citation style

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

McCusker JK (2001) Photocatalysis. Fuel from photons. Science 293:1599–1601

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuffey KM, Marshall SJ (2000) Substantial contribution to sea-level rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet. Nature 404:591–594

A journal article with 3 authors

Harding EJ, Paul ES, Mendl M (2004) Animal behaviour: cognitive bias and affective state. Nature 427:312

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bittar F, Keita MB, Lagier J-C, et al (2014) Gorilla gorilla gorilla gut: a potential reservoir of pathogenic bacteria as revealed using culturomics and molecular tools. Sci Rep 4:7174

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diver DA (2013) Plasma Formulary for Physics, Astronomy, and Technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Nikulin M (2016) The Cox Model and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Magerko B, DeLeon C, Dohogne P (2011) Digital Improvisational Theatre: Party Quirks. In: Vilhjálmsson HH, Kopp S, Marsella S, Thórisson KR (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–47

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 Conservation Genetics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Check Out This Amazing Video Of Apollo Photos Turned Into A Stop Motion Film. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-video-turned-those-apollo-photos-stop-motion-film/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Griess JO (2010) A canine audience: The effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on reading progress among students identified with learning disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kelly WP (2002) Mr. Miró, Mr. Basie. New York Times 716

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCusker 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cuffey and Marshall 2000; McCusker 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cuffey and Marshall 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bittar et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Genetics
Abbreviation	Conserv. Genet.
ISSN (print)	1566-0621
ISSN (online)	1572-9737
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics