How to format your references using the Journal of Ornithology citation style

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

Robinson CP (2004) Revisiting the Baruch Plan. Nature 432:441–442

A journal article with 2 authors

Deban SM, Olson WM (2002) Suction feeding by a tiny predatory tadpole. Nature 420:41–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Karlin S, Bergman A, Gentles AJ (2001) Genomics. Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature 411:259–260

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Toyoshima-Morimoto F, Taniguchi E, Shinya N, et al (2001) Polo-like kinase 1 phosphorylates cyclin B1 and targets it to the nucleus during prophase. Nature 410:215–220

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone R (2012) The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Reed BM (ed) (2008) Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Matsunami H, Kubosumi A, Matsumoto K (2016) Human Behavior Observation for Service Science. In: Kwan SK, Spohrer JC, Sawatani Y (eds) Global Perspectives on Service Science: Japan. Springer, New York, NY, pp 49–59

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 Ornithology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) First Official Astronaut from Britain will eat Michelin-Star Food in Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-official-astronaut-britain-will-eat-michelin-star-food-space/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1997) Aviation Security: Commercially Available Advanced Explosives Detection Devices. 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

Yackel RJ (2010) Recruitment and retention of nurses in long -term care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Hollander S (2002) Jersey City Show Features a Twist. New York Times 89

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Deban and Olson 2002; Robinson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Deban and Olson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Toyoshima-Morimoto et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ornithology
Abbreviation	J. Ornithol.
ISSN (print)	2193-7192
ISSN (online)	2193-7206
Scope