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

Dainton M (2001) Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410: 324–5; disussion 326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keen DA, Goodwin AL (2015) The crystallography of correlated disorder. Nature 521: 303–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell JF, Stoner GR, Reynolds JH (2004) Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 429: 410–413.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Volkmann N, Amann KJ, Stoilova-McPhie S, Egile C, Winter DC, Hazelwood L, Heuser JE, Li R, Pollard TD, Hanein D (2001) Structure of Arp2/3 complex in its activated state and in actin filament branch junctions. Science 293: 2456–2459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasch A, Gasch B (2010) Successfully Choosing Your EMR. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Ruan J, Leung CB, eds. (2012) Perspectives on Teaching and Learning English Literacy in China. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Cao H, Sumita E, Zhao T, Li S (2012) Phrasal Syntactic Category Sequence Model for Phrase-Based MT. In: Gelbukh A, ed. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 52–59.

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

Evans K (2016) 7 Ways To Tell If Someone Is Cheating On You. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7-ways-to-tell-if-someone-is-cheating-on-you/ (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 (2005) Space Acquisitions: Stronger Development Practices and Investment Planning Needed to Address Continuing Problems ( No. GAO-05-891T). 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

Arzaga CB (2012) Homeless Shelter Program for the Elderly in Los Angeles, California: A Grant Writing Project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Friday File. New York Times C25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dainton, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dainton, 2001; Keen and Goodwin, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Keen and Goodwin, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Volkmann et al., 2001)

About the journal

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