How to format your references using the Ethnobiology and Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ethnobiology and 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	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

Richardson DJ (2010) Applied physics. Filling the light pipe. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330:327–328

A journal article with 2 authors

Convey P, Stevens MI (2007) Ecology. Antarctic biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317:1877–1878

A journal article with 3 authors

Alby K, Schaefer D, Bennett RJ (2009) Homothallic and heterothallic mating in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans. Nature 460:890–893

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Refojo D, Schweizer M, Kuehne C, Ehrenberg S, Thoeringer C, Vogl AM, Dedic N, Schumacher M, von Wolff G, Avrabos C, Touma C, Engblom D, Schütz G, Nave K-A, Eder M, Wotjak CT, Sillaber I, Holsboer F, Wurst W, Deussing JM (2011) Glutamatergic and dopaminergic neurons mediate anxiogenic and anxiolytic effects of CRHR1. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333:1903–1907

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiebe VJ (2015) Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

(2013) Antitumor Potential and other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Szelag E, Dacewicz A (2016) Nonlinear Timing and Language Processing in Norm and Pathology. In: Esposito A, Faundez-Zanuy M, Esposito AM, Cordasco G, Drugman T, Solé-Casals J, Morabito FC (eds) Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–44

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 Ethnobiology and Conservation.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Divers Stumble Upon Bizarre, Car-Sized Ball Of Jelly. [https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/divers-turkey-found-huge-jelly-blob-its-squid-eggs/] Accessed October 30, 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 (1988) Summer Youth Jobs Program: Congressional Action Has Increased Emphasis on Remedial Education. 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

Adaligil E (2010) Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode. 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

Conte L (2011) Scouting Report. New York Times E5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richardson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Convey and Stevens 2007; Richardson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Convey and Stevens 2007)
Three or more authors: (Refojo et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethnobiology and Conservation
ISSN (online)	2238-4782
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Plant Science Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation Anthropology