How to format your references using the Movement Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Movement Ecology. 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

1. Reich ES. Online reputations: Best face forward. Nature. 2011;473:138–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Müller F-J, Loring JF. Network biology: A compass for stem-cell differentiation. Nature. 2014;513:498–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Meloso D, Copic J, Bossaerts P. Promoting intellectual discovery: patents versus markets. Science. 2009;323:1335–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bastolla U, Fortuna MA, Pascual-García A, Ferrera A, Luque B, Bascompte J. The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature. 2009;458:1018–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Groves E. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Bhamidimarri R, Liu A, editors. Engineering and Enterprise: Inspiring Innovation. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rückert U, Kloft M. Transfer Learning with Adaptive Regularizers. In: Gunopulos D, Hofmann T, Malerba D, Vazirgiannis M, editors. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 65–80.

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 Movement Ecology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. NASA Picks Groin Airlock As Winner Of Space Poop Competition [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-groin-airlock-winner-space-poop-competition/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. New York Stock Exchange: Capability of Automated Systems To Identify Program Trading. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-88-36.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Paulone S. Mergers and Acquisitions: Examining Managerial Strategy Connection to Post Transaction Accounting Measures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2013.

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

1. Eligon J. T. I. Writes Letters to Obama and Trump. New York Times. 2017 Jan 7;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Movement Ecology
Abbreviation	Mov. Ecol.
ISSN (online)	2051-3933
Scope

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