How to format your references using the Environmental Conservation citation style

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

Corkum P (2000) Laser physics. Attosecond pulses at last. Nature 403: 845–846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doebeli M, Dieckmann U (2003) Speciation along environmental gradients. Nature 421: 259–264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF (2014) Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Scientific reports 4: 7621.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dai X, Cheng C, Zhang W, Xin M, Huai P, Zhang R, et al. (2013) Defect induced electronic structure of uranofullerene. Scientific reports 3: 1341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lakshminarayana B (2007) Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rothrock L, Narayanan S eds (2011) Human-in-the-Loop Simulations: Methods and Practice. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma VK, Sohn M (2012) Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins by Chlorine Dioxide. Implications for Water Treatment. In: E Lichtfouse, J Schwarzbauer, D Robert (eds), Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World: Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution, pp. 237–254. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Environmental Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Could Cold Spot In The Sky Be A Bruise From A Collision With A Parallel Universe? [WWW document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-cold-spot-in-the-sky-be-a-bruise-from-a-collision-with-a-parallel-universe/

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 (1977) Navigation Systems [WWW document]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan JI (2017) Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest.

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) Writing Partner ‘Flabbergasted’ By Accusations Against Halperin. New York Times: B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corkum, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Corkum, 2000, Doebeli, Dieckmann, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Doebeli, Dieckmann, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Dai et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Conservation
Abbreviation	Environ. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	0376-8929
ISSN (online)	1469-4387
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Pollution Water Science and Technology