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

Savage N (2015) Aerodynamics: Vortices and robobees. Nature 521:S64-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura M, Somerville S (2002) Plant biology. Resisting attack. Science 295:2032–2033

A journal article with 3 authors

Venditti C, Meade A, Pagel M (2011) Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature 479:393–396

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang Y, Sugimoto JD, Halloran ME, et al (2009) The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. Science 326:729–733

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn A, Behle B, Lischewski D, Rein W (2002) Produktionstechnische Praxis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Amerio L (ed) (2011) Equazioni differenziali astratte. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Grushko TA, Olopade OI (2008) Genetic Markers in Breast Tumors with Hereditary Predisposition. In: Bronchud MH, Foote MA, Giaccone G, et al. (eds) Principles of Molecular Oncology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 85–105

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

Andrew E (2015) Coin Spiders Chop Off Their Own Genitals After Sex. 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 (1996) Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Issues Raised by Proposal to Replace the Airline Ticket Tax. 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

Calhoun GF (2009) Limit theory for overfit models. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Schwartz J, Robertson C (2017) New Orleans Looks to Houston, and Sees Itself. New York Times A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nishimura and Somerville 2002; Savage 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nishimura and Somerville 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2009)

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