How to format your references using the Conservation Physiology citation style

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

Price RM (2012) IBI* series winner. How we got here: an inquiry-based activity about human evolution. Science 338: 1554–1555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Didenko YT, Suslick KS (2002) The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation. Nature 418: 394–397.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li Y, Moon K-S, Wong CP (2005) Materials science. Electronics without lead. Science 308: 1419–1420.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Maekawa A, Pei Z, Suzuki M, Fukuda H, Ono Y, Kondo S, Saito I, Kanegae Y (2013) Efficient production of adenovirus vector lacking genes of virus-associated RNAs that disturb cellular RNAi machinery. Sci Rep 3: 1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meiswinkel R, Meyer J, Schnell J (2013) Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Simmons K (2009) Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Caldwell CM, Kaplan KB (2009) The Role of APC in Mitosis and in Chromosome Instability. In: Näthke IS, McCartney BM, eds. APC Proteins. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–64.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) China Plans To Build 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants In The South China Sea. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-plans-build-20-floating-nuclear-power-plants-south-china-sea/ (last accessed 30 October 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) Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Cost Increases Trigger Review and Place Program’s Direction on Hold ( No. GAO-06-573T). 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

Frias-Martinez V (2008) Behavior-Based Admission and Access Control for Network Security (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Gurley G (2016) The Uninvited Guests. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Price, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Didenko and Suslick, 2002; Price, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Didenko and Suslick, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Maekawa et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Physiology
Abbreviation	Conserv. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	2051-1434
Scope