How to format your references using the Oryx citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oryx. 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	Download the output style file
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

Doumbo, O.K. (2005) Global voices of science. It takes a village: medical research and ethics in Mali. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307, 679–681.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schliwa, M. & Woehlke, G. (2003) Molecular motors. Nature, 422, 759–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

Venditti, C., Meade, A. & Pagel, M. (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature, 463, 349–352.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, W., Scott, A.P., Siefkes, M.J., Yan, H., Liu, Q., Yun, S.-S. & Gage, D.A. (2002) Bile Acid secreted by male sea lamprey that acts as a sex pheromone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296, 138–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shunmugaperumal, T. (2010) Biofilm Eradication and Prevention. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ystad, S., Aramaki, M., Kronland-Martinet, R. & Jensen, K. (eds) (2011) Exploring Music Contents: 7th International Symposium, CMMR 2010, Málaga, Spain, June 21-24, 2010. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Driscoll, B., Gupta, N., Vettor, R., Hirani, Z. & Tenny, L. (2013) Loading Entities and Navigation Properties. In Entity Framework 6 Recipes (eds N. Gupta, R. Vettor, Z. Hirani & L. Tenny), pp. 129–181. 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 Oryx.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) What Is The Largest Known Object In The Universe? IFLScience. IFLScience. Https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-largest-object-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 (2016) School Choice: Private School Choice Programs Are Growing and Can Complicate Providing Certain Federally Funded Services to Eligible Students. 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

Burns, D. (2017) Measuring the Outcome of At-Risk Students on Biology Standardized Tests When Using Different Instructional Strategies. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Cain, S. (2017) Followers Wanted. New York Times, SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doumbo, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schliwa & Woehlke, 2003; Doumbo, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schliwa & Woehlke, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oryx
Abbreviation	Oryx
ISSN (print)	0030-6053
ISSN (online)	1365-3008
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation