How to format your references using the Endangered Species Research citation style

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

Hunten DM (2006) The sequestration of ethane on Titan in smog particles. Nature 443:669–670.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vert G, Chory J (2006) Downstream nuclear events in brassinosteroid signalling. Nature 441:96–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deslauriers L, Schelew E, Wieman C (2011) Improved learning in a large-enrollment physics class. Science 332:862–864.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wettey FR, Hawkins SFC, Stewart A, Luzio JP, Howard JC, Jackson AP (2002) Controlled elimination of clathrin heavy-chain expression in DT40 lymphocytes. Science 297:1521–1525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs PG, Attwood TK (2004) Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Malden, MA USA.

An edited book

Haszpra L (ed) (2011) Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pillai BVS, Kagale S, Chellamma S (2012) Enhancing Productivity and Performance of Oil Seed Crops under Environmental Stresses. In: Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies. Venkateswarlu B, Shanker AK, Shanker C, Maheswari M (eds) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p 139–161

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 Endangered Species Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Ancient Beetle Discovered To Be Oldest Example Of Ant Social Parasitism. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-beetle-discovered-be-oldest-example-social-parasitism/ (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 (1986) ADP Acquisitions: SSA Should Limit ADP Procurements Until Further Testing Is Performed. 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

Obakhume DA (2013) An aftercare program for female survivors of domestic abuse: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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 (2005) Abortion Case May Be Central In Confirmation. New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hunten 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Vert & Chory 2006, Hunten 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vert & Chory 2006)
Three authors: (Deslauriers et al. 2011)
99 or more authors: (Wettey et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Endangered Species Research
Abbreviation	Endanger. Species Res.
ISSN (print)	1863-5407
ISSN (online)	1613-4796
Scope	Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation