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

Ijspeert, A.J. (2014) Biorobotics: using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346, 196–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salinga, M. & Wuttig, M. (2011) Applied physics. Phase-change memories on a diet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332, 543–544.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amunts, A., Drory, O. & Nelson, N. (2007) The structure of a plant photosystem I supercomplex at 3.4 A resolution. Nature, 447, 58–63.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schuwirth, B.S., Borovinskaya, M.A., Hau, C.W., Zhang, W., Vila-Sanjurjo, A., Holton, J.M. & Cate, J.H.D. (2005) Structures of the bacterial ribosome at 3.5 A resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310, 827–834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davidson, P.W., Prasher, V.P. & Janicki, M.P. (2008) Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kimmel, R., Klette, R. & Sugimoto, A. (eds) (2011) Computer Vision – ACCV 2010: 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawano, T., Iwama, N., Ishihata, H., Shimauchi, H. & Shimomura, M. (2012) Preparation and Biomedical Application of Self-Organized Honeycomb-Patterned Polymer Films. In Interface Oral Health Science 2011 (eds K. Sasaki, O. Suzuki & N. Takahashi), pp. 22–26. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

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) Deep Water: A New Technology Probes Sydney’s Groundwater For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. Https://www.iflscience.com/environment/deep-water-new-technology-probes-sydney-s-groundwater-first-time/ [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 (2001) Early Childhood Programs: The Use of Impact Evaluations to Assess Program Effects. 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

Fountain, J.M. (2014) Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model. 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

Barron, J. (2017) A Historic Home Burns, and Suspicions Spread. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ijspeert, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Salinga & Wuttig, 2011; Ijspeert, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Salinga & Wuttig, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Schuwirth et al., 2005)

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

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