How to format your references using the Journal for Nature Conservation citation style

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

Tylianakis, J. M. (2009). Ecology. Warming up food webs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1300–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauch, E. M., & Bar-Yam, Y. (2004). Theory predicts the uneven distribution of genetic diversity within species. Nature, 431(7007), 449–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raff, M. C., Whitmore, A. V., & Finn, J. T. (2002). Axonal self-destruction and neurodegeneration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5569), 868–871.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, X., Deng, Z. D., Sun, Y., Martinez, J. J., Fu, T., McMichael, G. A., & Carlson, T. J. (2014). A 3D approximate maximum likelihood solver for localization of fish implanted with acoustic transmitters. Scientific Reports, 4, 7215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wing, C. (2012). How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aguayo-Torres, M. C., Gómez, G., & Poncela, J. (Eds.). (2015). Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 13th International Conference, WWIC 2015, Malaga, Spain, May 25-27, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9071). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, C. T., Liebovitch, L. S., & Glendon, R. (2010). Hunter–Gatherers Optimize Their Foraging Patterns Using Lévy Flights. In D. G. Bates & J. Tucker (Eds.), Human Ecology: Contemporary Research and Practice (pp. 51–65). Springer US.

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 Journal for Nature Conservation.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, July 16). Teenager Develops Test That Can Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/teenager-designs-early-test-alzheimers/

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. (1987). [Comments on Proposed Oregon Purchase of Rail Line With Oil Overcharge Settlement] (B-226517). 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

Robinson-Scott, D. (2010). Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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. (2016, February 18). Resetting the Post-Scalia Supreme Court. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tylianakis, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Rauch & Bar-Yam, 2004; Tylianakis, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rauch & Bar-Yam, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for Nature Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Nat. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1617-1381
Scope	Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation