How to format your references using the Journal of Threatened Taxa citation style

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

Evans, R. (2012). Wylie Walker Vale Jr (1941-2012). Nature 483(7391): 542.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sprecher, S.G. & Desplan, C. (2008). Switch of rhodopsin expression in terminally differentiated Drosophila sensory neurons. Nature 454(7203): 533–537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baxt, L.A., Garza-Mayers, A.C., & Goldberg, M.B. (2013). Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6133): 697–701.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Herrero, M., Thornton, P.K., Notenbaert, A.M., Wood, S., Msangi, S., Freeman, H.A., … Rosegrant, M. (2010). Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327(5967): 822–825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alacoque, J.C. (2012). Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors. A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Johnson-Hanks, J.A. (2011). Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action. (C. A. Bachrach, S. P. Morgan, & H.-P. Kohler, Eds.)Vol. 5. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XX, 180 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Trautschold, M. & Mazo, G. (2010). Sync Your iPad with iTunes pp. 97–145. In: Mazo, G. (Ed.). iPad Made Simple. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

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 Threatened Taxa.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 9). Missing: Major Light Source In Universe. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/space/missing-major-light-source-universe/ accessed 30 October 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). Air Force ADP: Logistics Systems Modernization Costs Continue to Increase. No. IMTEC-89-7FS. 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

Pesochinsky, N. (2019). Effect of Refractive Vision Correction of Myopia and Hyperopia Through Laser Surgery (LASIK & PRK) on Symptoms of Depression, Stress Perception and Self-esteem in Adults (22-55). Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. (2016, February 12). Valentines, Vengeful and Comic, Through an Antique Lens. New York Times, p. C28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Sprecher & Desplan 2008; Evans 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sprecher & Desplan 2008)
Three or more authors: (Herrero et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Threatened Taxa
ISSN (print)	0974-7893
ISSN (online)	0974-7907
Scope