How to format your references using the Conservation Science and Practice citation style

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

Basset, J.-M. (2015). Yves Chauvin (1930-2015). Nature, 519, 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilhite, A. W., & Fong, E. A. (2012). Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335, 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van der Burg, E., Cass, J., & Alais, D. (2014). Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter. Scientific Reports, 4, 5098.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leigh, D. A., Wong, J. K. Y., Dehez, F., & Zerbetto, F. (2003). Unidirectional rotation in a mechanically interlocked molecular rotor. Nature, 424, 174–179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woods, D. R. (2005). Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pariatamby, A., & Tanaka, M. (Eds.). (2014). Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Strategic Solutions. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehlotra, R. K., & Zimmerman, P. A. (2006). Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs: Parasite and Host Genetic Factors. In P. Arese (Ed.), Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects (pp. 81–124). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Science and Practice.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, February 10). This “Orange Alligator” Has Been Spotted In South Carolina.

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. (1992). National Aero-Space Plane: Key Issues Facing the Program (No. T-NSIAD-92-26). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Willhite, D. G. (2001). Purification, Identification, and Partial Characterization of Proteins Associated with the Adaptive Immune Response to Soluble Protein Antigen in the American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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, M. J. (2017, July 14). Slow Trading Fails to Dent Strong Results for Banks. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basset, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Basset, 2015; Wilhite & Fong, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wilhite & Fong, 2012)
Three authors: (Van der Burg, Cass, & Alais, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Leigh, Wong, Dehez, & Zerbetto, 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Science and Practice
ISSN (online)	2578-4854
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