How to format your references using the Taxon citation style

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

Carpenter, S. 2008. Science careers. Finding industry funding. Science 319: 1550–1551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bandyopadhyay, P.R., & Hansen, J.C. 2013. Breakup and then makeup: a predictive model of how cilia self-regulate hardness for posture control. Sci. Rep. 3: 1956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branco, T., Clark, B.A., & Häusser, M. 2010. Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons. Science 329: 1671–1675.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jankowsky, E., Gross, C.H., Shuman, S., & Pyle, A.M. 2001. Active disruption of an RNA-protein interaction by a DExH/D RNA helicase. Science 291: 121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broekaert, J.A.C. 2005. Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hiramatsu, M. 2010. Carbon Nanowalls: Synthesis and Emerging Applications. M. Hori, Ed. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, J. 2015. Adoption of Mobile Technology in Higher Education: Introduction. Pp. 331–336 in: Y. (aimee) Zhang (ed.), Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. 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 Taxon.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, April 7. Indonesian Mimic Octopus Is The Ultimate Master of Disguise. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indonesian-mimic-octopus-ultimate-master-disguise/ (accessed 30 Oct 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. 2007. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Should Clarify Guidance and Address Potential Compliance Issues for Schools in Corrective Action and Restructuring Status. No. GAO-07-1035. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Walker, D. 2017. University Research Adminstrators’ Perception of Incivility and the Relationship to Employee Engagement. Doctoral dissertation. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Smith, B. 2017, January 23. Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carpenter, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Carpenter, 2008; Bandyopadhyay & Hansen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bandyopadhyay & Hansen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jankowsky & al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Taxon
Abbreviation	Taxon
ISSN (print)	0040-0262
ISSN (online)	1996-8175
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science

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