How to format your references using the Conservation Genetics Resources citation style

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

Hahn R (2013) Ronald Harry Coase (1910-2013). Nature 502:449

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakow NA, Suslick KS (2000) A colorimetric sensor array for odour visualization. Nature 406:710–713

A journal article with 3 authors

Rubenstein M, Cornejo A, Nagpal R (2014) Robotics. Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm. Science 345:795–799

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Diddams SA, Bergquist JC, Jefferts SR, Oates CW (2004) Standards of time and frequency at the outset of the 21st century. Science 306:1318–1324

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wing C (2012) How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ladikas M, Chaturvedi S, Zhao Y, Stemerding D (eds) (2015) Science and Technology Governance and Ethics: A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hay GJ, Castilla G (2008) Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA): A new name for a new discipline. In: Blaschke T, Lang S, Hay GJ (eds) Object-Based Image Analysis: Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–89

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 Resources.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Google Lunar XPRIZE Competition To Land On The Moon Sees Israeli Company Take The Lead. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) Challenges of Protecting Personal Information in an Expanding Federal Computer Network Environment. 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

Paulone S (2013) Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) The Listings; Film Series. New York Times C23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hahn 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rakow and Suslick 2000; Hahn 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rakow and Suslick 2000)
Three or more authors: (Diddams et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Genetics Resources
Abbreviation	Conserv. Genet. Resour.
ISSN (print)	1877-7252
ISSN (online)	1877-7260
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics