How to format your references using the Oecologia Australis citation style

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

Grebe, M. 2005. Plant biology. Enhanced: growth by auxin: when a weed needs acid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5745), 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Felsenfeld, G., & Groudine, M. 2003. Controlling the double helix. Nature, 421(6921), 448–453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng, J.-K., Philippe, R. N., & Noel, J. P. 2012. The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1667–1670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krot, A. N., Meibom, A., Russell, S. S., Alexander, C. M., Jeffries, T. E., & Keil, K. 2001. A new astrophysical setting for chondrule formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1776–1779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye, T. 2008. Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Dufrénot, G., Jawadi, F., & Louhichi, W. (Eds.). 2014. Market Microstructure and Nonlinear Dynamics: Keeping Financial Crisis in Context. Cham: Springer International Publishing: p. XII, 315 p. 32 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Teytaud, O., Gelly, S., & Mary, J. 2006. On the Ultimate Convergence Rates for Isotropic Algorithms and the Best Choices Among Various Forms of Isotropy. In: T. P. Runarsson, H.-G. Beyer, E. Burke, J. J. Merelo-Guervós, L. D. Whitley, & X. Yao (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX: 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Proceedings. pp. 32–41. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Oecologia Australis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, June 13. Man Swims Near Shark in Sydney Harbor: Real or Hoax? (Retrieved on October 30th, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-swims-near-shark-sydney-harbor-real-or-hoax/).

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. 1990. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Effort to Modernize the System. No. RCED-90-146FS; p. ed. 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

Coleman, J. M. 2012. Classroom management: Whose responsibility is it?. Doctoral dissertation Long Beach, CA, 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. 2005, November 1. Justices to Decide When Victims’ Transcripts Can Be Used. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grebe 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Felsenfeld & Groudine 2003, Grebe 2005).

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

Two authors: (Felsenfeld & Groudine 2003)
Three or more authors: (Krot et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oecologia Australis
ISSN (print)	2177-6199
Scope	Ecology