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

Jain, R. K. 2005. Normalization of tumor vasculature: an emerging concept in antiangiogenic therapy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), 58–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yack, J. E., & Fullard, J. H. 2000. Ultrasonic hearing in nocturnal butterflies. Nature, 403(6767), 265–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, Y., Wang, J., & Zhang, X. 2013. Accurate determination of the vapor-liquid-solid contact line tension and the viability of Young equation. Scientific Reports, 3, 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ikeda, H., Stark, J., Fischer, H., Wagner, M., Drdla, R., Jäger, T., & Sandkühler, J. 2006. Synaptic amplifier of inflammatory pain in the spinal dorsal horn. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1659–1662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frueh, B. C., Grubaugh, A. L., Elhai, J. D., & Ford, J. D. 2012. Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Molina, Á. 2016. Pulse Voltammetry in Physical Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis: Theory and Applications. J. González (Ed.), Cham: Springer International Publishing: p. XV, 671 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Tu, E. J.-C., & Wang, J. 2014. Patterns and Changes in Household Structure in Hong Kong. In: D. L. Poston Jr., W. S. Yang, & D. N. Farris (Eds.), The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies. pp. 59–77. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2013, December 31. First patient receives next-generation artificial heart replacement. (Retrieved on October 30th, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-patient-receives-next-generation-artificial-heart-replacement/).

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. 1995. Reengineering: Opportunities to Improve. No. AIMD-95-67R; 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

Meghani, H. P. 2017. Med-Equip Solutions LLC: A wheelchair distributor company business plan. 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

Walsh, M. W., & Corkery, M. 2015, September 30. Senate Panel Seeks More Details About Puerto Rico’s Debt and Long-Term Needs. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jain 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Yack & Fullard 2000, Jain 2005).

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

Two authors: (Yack & Fullard 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ikeda et al. 2006)

About the journal

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