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

Butler, D. 2003. Developing-world health: the fightback starts here. Nature 426:754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koentges, G., and T. Matsuoka. 2002. Evolution. Jaws of the fates. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298:371–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savrasov, S. Y., G. Kotliar, and E. Abrahams. 2001. Correlated electrons in delta-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture. Nature 410:793–795.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Albrengues, J., M. A. Shields, D. Ng, C. G. Park, A. Ambrico, M. E. Poindexter, P. Upadhyay, D. L. Uyeminami, A. Pommier, V. Küttner, E. Bružas, et al. 2018. Neutrophil extracellular traps produced during inflammation awaken dormant cancer cells in mice. Science (New York, N.Y.) 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E., R. Ellis, and N. S. Pujar. 2014. Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. In.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Veltman, A. 2016. Fundamentals of Electrical Drives. In.: 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Mestechkina, T., N. D. Son, and J. Y. Shin. 2014. Parenting in Vietnam. In: Parenting Across Cultures: Childrearing, Motherhood and Fatherhood in Non-Western Cultures. H. Selin (ed.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–57.

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

Andrew, D. 2016. Can Drinking Coffee Reduce Your Dementia Risk? IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-drinking-coffee-reduce-your-dementia-risk/.

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. 1997. FAA Financing: Issues and Options in Deciding to Reinstate or Replace the Airline Ticket Tax.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bradnan, D. M. 2015. Cherelle Wilt in Theobroma cacao.

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

Oestreich, J. R. 2017. From 1687, Early Sounds in All Their Vibrancy. New York Times:C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Koentges and Matsuoka, 2002; Butler, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Koentges and Matsuoka, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Albrengues et al., 2018)

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

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