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

Costandi, M. (2013) Neurodegeneration: amyloid awakenings. Nature, 497, S19-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi, K. & Ishiwata, S. (2001) Nucleotide-dependent single- to double-headed binding of kinesin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291, 667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velikov, V., Borick, S. & Angell, C.A. (2001) The glass transition of water, based on hyperquenching experiments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294, 2335–2338.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, L., Yu, P., Zhao, L., Tian, C., Zhao, D., Zhou, W., et al. (2014) B and N isolate-doped graphitic carbon nanosheets from nitrogen-containing ion-exchanged resins for enhanced oxygen reduction. Scientific reports, 4, 5184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin, J.-C. (2014) Participatory Mapping. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Järvelä, M. & Juhola, S. (eds) (2011) Energy, Policy, and the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Development for the North, 1st edition. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Parati, G., Valentini, M. & Mancia, G. (2007) Psicofisiologia delle malattie cardiache. In Mente e cuore: Clinica psicologica della malattia cardiaca (eds Gianfranco Parati & A. Compare), pp. 41–76. Springer, Milano.

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

Fang, J. (2016) How Iguanas Survive On Just Rabbit Chow. IFLScience. IFLScience. Https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-iguanas-survive-on-just-rabbit-chow/ [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 (1979) Grumman Corporation Computer Software Development Costs and Licensing Fees Paid by the Government. 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

Hamilton, S.M. (2015) An Investigation of the Mass Balance of Oil and Gas Produced Versus Estimated Reserves Remaining within the A.W.P. Field, McMullen County, Texas. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010) Waiting To Discover If Water Still Flows. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Costandi, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaguchi & Ishiwata, 2001; Costandi, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi & Ishiwata, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

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