How to format your references using the Journal of Avian Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Avian Biology. 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

Feldman, J. 2000. Minimization of Boolean complexity in human concept learning. – Nature 407: 630–633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singleton, A. B. and Traynor, B. J. 2015. Genetics. For complex disease genetics, collaboration drives progress. – Science 347: 1422–1423.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xia, X.-M., Zeng, X. and Lingle, C. J. 2002. Multiple regulatory sites in large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels. – Nature 418: 880–884.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

O’Brien, C. M., Fox, C. J., Planque, B. and Casey, J. 2000. Climate variability and North Sea cod. – Nature 404: 142.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law, H. 2013. The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. – John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Raś, Z. W. and Wieczorkowska, A. A.Eds. 2010. Advances in Music Information Retrieval. – Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wyn, J. 2015. Youth Policy and the Problematic Nexus Between Education and Employment. – In: Riele, K. te and Gorur, R. (eds), Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. SensePublishers, pp. 49–61.

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 of Avian Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. What On Earth Are They Doing To Our Chocolate Bars? – IFLScience.

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. 1989. Truck Safety: Implementation of the Single Driver’s License and Notification Requirements.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sutherland, C. E. 2013. Positive deviance during organization change: Researchers’ social construction of expanded university goals. – Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

Saslow, L. 2007. Suffolk Seeks Ways to Ease School Taxes. – New York Times. : LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Feldman 2000, Singleton and Traynor 2015).

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

Two authors: (Singleton and Traynor 2015)
Three or more authors: (O’Brien et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Avian Biology
Abbreviation	J. Avian Biol.
ISSN (print)	0908-8857
ISSN (online)	1600-048X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics