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

Smil V (2000) Laying down the law. Nature 403:597

A journal article with 2 authors

Moir S, Fauci AS (2010) Immunology. Salmonella susceptibility. Science 328:439–440

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu A, Ding C, Tian Y (2013) A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for cupric ions in live cells and tissues. Sci Rep 3:2933

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goldberger J, He R, Zhang Y, et al (2003) Single-crystal gallium nitride nanotubes. Nature 422:599–602

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

“MAX” Maxfield C, Brown A (2005) The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Reddy LH, Couvreur P (eds) (2010) Macromolecular Anticancer Therapeutics. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Stichelbaut B, De Clercq W, Herremans D, Bourgeois J (2013) First World War Aerial Photography and Medieval Landscapes: Moated Sites in Flanders. In: Hanson WS, Oltean IA (eds) Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–85

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

Andrew E (2015) Bizarre Newly Discovered “Platypus” Dinosaur Baffles Scientists. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bizarre-new-pick-and-mix-platypus-dinosaur-baffles-scientists/. 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 (1998) National Airspace System: Status of Wide Area Augmentation System Project. 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

Barrett C (2010) Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Moore KA (2007) Take Al Qaeda to Court. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smil 2000; Moir and Fauci 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moir and Fauci 2010)
Three or more authors: (Goldberger et al. 2003)

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