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

Rodbell DT (2012) Climate change. Marching in near lock-step. Science 335: 548–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Southwick SM, Charney DS (2012) The science of resilience: implications for the prevention and treatment of depression. Science 338: 79–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

Provencio I, Rollag MD, Castrucci AM (2002) Photoreceptive net in the mammalian retina. This mesh of cells may explain how some blind mice can still tell day from night. Nature 415: 493.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kamermans M, Fahrenfort I, Schultz K, Janssen-Bienhold U, Sjoerdsma T, Weiler R (2001) Hemichannel-mediated inhibition in the outer retina. Science 292: 1178–1180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matte GS (2015) Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Papathanasiou J, Ploskas N, Linden I, eds. (2016) Real-World Decision Support Systems: Case Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Krugman RD (2013) Introduction and Commentary: The Battered Child. In: Krugman RD, Korbin JE, eds. C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 21–22.

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

Luntz S (2016) Platypus Venom Could Spur Diabetes Treatment. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/platypus-venom-could-spur-diabetes-treatment/ (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 (2000) Internet Privacy: Comparison of Federal Agency Practices With FTC’s Fair Information Principles ( No. GAO-01-113T). 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

Nikolova S (2010) Health Insurance Transitions of SCHIP-Eligible Children in Response to Higher Public Premiums (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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) A Look at Past Stories and Articles in The Times. New York Times C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodbell, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Rodbell, 2012; Southwick and Charney, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Southwick and Charney, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kamermans et al., 2001)

About the journal

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

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