How to format your references using the Emu - Austral Ornithology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Emu - Austral Ornithology. 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

Said R (2002). Did Nile flooding sink two ancient cities? Nature 415, 37–38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kissa K, Herbomel P (2010). Blood stem cells emerge from aortic endothelium by a novel type of cell transition. Nature 464, 112–115.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee KJ, Dietrich P, Jessell TM (2000). Genetic ablation reveals that the roof plate is essential for dorsal interneuron specification. Nature 403, 734–740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yooseph S, Nealson KH, Rusch DB, McCrow JP, Dupont CL, Kim M, Johnson J, Montgomery R, Ferriera S, Beeson K, Williamson SJ, Tovchigrechko A, Allen AE, Zeigler LA, Sutton G, Eisenstadt E, Rogers Y-H, Friedman R, Frazier M, Venter JC (2010). Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes. Nature 468, 60–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte SA (2015). ‘Making Waves’. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Cervantes L (2016). ‘Hierarchical Type-2 Fuzzy Aggregation of Fuzzy Controllers’ Ed O Castillo. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Bakis CE (2011). Durability of GFRP Reinforcement Bars. In ‘Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2010), Sep 27–29, 2010, Beijing, China’. (Eds L Ye, P Feng, Q Yue.) pp. 33–36. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Emu - Austral Ornithology.

Blog post

Davis J (2016). Satellite Imagery Combined With AI Used To Identify People Living In Most Poverty. IFLScience.

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). Space Station: Cost Control Problems Continue to Worsen. T-NSIAD-97-177. 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

Adams TA (2012). Improving Scores on Computerized Reading Assessments: The Effects of Colored Overlay Use. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Greenhouse L (2007). A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Said 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Said 2002; Kissa and Herbomel 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kissa and Herbomel 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yooseph et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emu - Austral Ornithology
Abbreviation	Emu
ISSN (print)	0158-4197
ISSN (online)	1448-5540
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation