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

Marrucci L (2013) Physics. Spinning the Doppler effect. Science 341:464–465

A journal article with 2 authors

Colton RJ, Russell JN Jr (2003) Counterterrorism. Making the world a safer place. Science 299:1324–1325

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang W, Kawamata H, Liu K (2009) CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage. Science 325:303–306

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Russelle MP, Morey RV, Baker JM, et al (2007) Comment on “Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomass.” Science 316:1567; author reply 1567

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

American Institute of Timber Constr (2012) Timber Construction Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wang J, Kosaka M, Xing K (eds) (2016) Manufacturing Servitization in the Asia-Pacific. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Caciandone S, Chiru C-G (2016) Using Machine Learning to Generate Predictions Based on the Information Extracted from Automobile Ads. In: Dichev C, Agre G (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 17th International Conference, AIMSA 2016, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-10, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 36–45

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

Andrews R (2017) What The Fresh Hell Is This Gigantic Furry Blob? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fresh-hell-gigantic-furry-blob/. 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 (1991) Airline Competition: Pending Legislation Helps to Address Serious Competitive Problems. 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

CampBell PK (2012) Lenses of indigenous feminism: Digging up the roots of Western patriarchy in “Perma Red” and “Monkey Beach.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

de la MERCED MJ (2017) Elliott Hedge Fund Tries to Beat Buffett’s Offer for Utility Operator. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marrucci 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Colton and Russell 2003; Marrucci 2013).

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

Two authors: (Colton and Russell 2003)
Three or more authors: (Russelle et al. 2007)

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