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

Benton MJ (2009) The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time. Science 323:728–732

A journal article with 2 authors

Chaine AS, Lyon BE (2008) Adaptive plasticity in female mate choice dampens sexual selection on male ornaments in the lark bunting. Science 319:459–462

A journal article with 3 authors

Piovia-Scott J, Spiller DA, Schoener TW (2011) Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science 331:461–463

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zwally HJ, Abdalati W, Herring T, et al (2002) Surface melt-induced acceleration of Greenland ice-sheet flow. Science 297:218–222

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Bosse JG (2002) Signaling in Telecommunication Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA

An edited book

Small W, Woloschak GE (eds) (2006) Radiation Toxicity: A Practical Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Korol AV, Solov’yov AV (2014) Cross Section of PBrS from Many-Electron Atoms and Ions. In: Solov’yov AV (ed) Polarization Bremsstrahlung. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–120

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) Dark Matter is Being Measured More Accurately Than Ever Before. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/embargo-9-july-1500-bst-dark-matter-being-measured-more-accurately-ever/. 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 (2006) Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs. 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

Pryor GL (2013) Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2017) Off to Italy to Study Art: An Ex-Inmate’s Journey. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chaine and Lyon 2008; Benton 2009).

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

Two authors: (Chaine and Lyon 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zwally et al. 2002)

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

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