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

Moro-Martín A (2012) Spanish changes are scientific suicide. Nature 482:277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goyal SK, Konrad T (2013) Teleporting photonic qudits using multimode quantum scissors. Sci Rep 3:3548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stager JC, Day JJ, Santini S (2004) Comment on ‘Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa’. Science 304:963; author reply 963.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang J-T, Chen C, Wang E, Kawazoe Y (2014) A new carbon allotrope with six-fold helical chains in all-sp2 bonding networks. Sci Rep 4:4339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry J-F, Brînzei N (2015) Systems Dependability Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Corradini A, Klin B, Cîrstea C (eds) (2011) Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: 4th International Conference, CALCO 2011, Winchester, UK, August 30 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Choroś K (2015) False and Miss Detections in Temporal Segmentation of TV Sports News Videos – Causes and Remedies. In: New Research in Multimedia and Internet Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Zgrzywa A, Choroś K, Siemiński A (eds) Springer International Publishing, Cham, p 35–46

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 (2015) Is Bullying Worse Than Child Abuse When It Comes To Mental Health? https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bullying-worse-child-abuse-when-it-comes-mental-health/ (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 (2002) Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: Contracting Practices Do Not Always Comply with Airport Lease Requirements. 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

Nistal França FJ (2017) Nondestructive Evaluation of Southern Pine Lumber. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

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

Burghardt LF (2005) Ready for Their Close-Up, a Couple Consults. New York Times:14LI12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moro-Martín 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Moro-Martín 2012, Goyal & Konrad 2013).

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

Two authors: (Goyal & Konrad 2013)
Three authors: (Stager et al. 2004)
99 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

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