How to format your references using the Copeia citation style

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

Garrett, C. 2003. Ocean science. Enhanced: internal tides and ocean mixing. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301:1858–1859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesner, S., and V. K. Aggarwal. 2012. Organic chemistry: reactions at the end of a tether. Nature 487:48–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Migliari, S., R. Fender, and M. Méndez. 2002. Iron emission lines from extended x-ray jets in SS 433: reheating of atomic nuclei. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297:1673–1676.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Li, N., H. Wang, A. Misra, and J. Wang. 2014. In situ nanoindentation study of plastic co-deformation in Al-TiN nanocomposites. Scientific reports 4:6633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Almeida, J. P. M., and E. A. W. Maunder. 2017. Equilibrium Finite Element Formulations. In.: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Vaarama, M., R. Pieper, and A. Sixsmith (Editors). 2008. Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age: Concepts, Models and Empirical Findings. In.: Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Fierens, D., J. Ramon, M. Bruynooghe, and H. Blockeel. 2008. Learning Directed Probabilistic Logical Models Using Ordering-Search. In: Inductive Logic Programming: 17th International Conference, ILP 2007, Corvallis, OR, USA, June 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. H. Blockeel, J. Ramon, J. Shavlik and P. Tadepalli (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–24.

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 Copeia.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. 2017. How Much Does Your Personality Change When You Drink? IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-much-does-your-personality-change-when-you-drink/.

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. 1991. Computer Technology: Air Attack Warning System Cannot Process All Radar Track Data.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson, W. C. 2015. Life satisfaction of Air Force civilian male spouses.

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

Poniewozik, J. 2017. War Is Hell? No, One-Dimensional. New York Times:AR116.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garrett, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Garrett, 2003; Roesner and Aggarwal, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Roesner and Aggarwal, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Copeia
Abbreviation	Copeia
ISSN (print)	0045-8511
ISSN (online)	1938-5110
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics