How to format your references using the The Auk citation style

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

Bird, A. (2007). Perceptions of epigenetics. Nature 447:396–398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armakolas, A., and A. J. S. Klar (2007). Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315:100–101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bourne, P. E., J. R. Lorsch, and E. D. Green (2015). Perspective: Sustaining the big-data ecosystem. Nature 527:S16-7.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Pravec, P., D. Vokrouhlický, D. Polishook, D. J. Scheeres, A. W. Harris, A. Galád, O. Vaduvescu, F. Pozo, A. Barr, P. Longa, F. Vachier, et al. (2010). Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission. Nature 466:1085–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, K. H., and R. Barnes (2010). VoIP Emergency Calling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Maitra, S., C. E. Veni Madhavan, and R. Venkatesan (Editors) (2005). Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005: 6th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Bangalore, India, December 10-12, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gest, H. (2005). History of the word photosynthesis and evolution of its definition. In Discoveries in Photosynthesis (Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, H. Gest and J. F. Allen, Editors). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 39–42.

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 The Auk.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014). Jaguar Tastes The Hallucinogenic Effects Of Yage. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jaguar-tastes-hallucinogenic-effects-yage/.

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 (1994). Research Fleet Modernization: NOAA Needs to Consider Alternatives to the Acquisition of New Vessels. U.S. Government Printing Office RCED-94-170.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, S. (2005). The Influence of Product Involvement and Fan Identification on Response to Team Sponsors’ Products.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr (2017). City Will Pay $4 Million in N.B.A. Player’s Arrest. New York Times:A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bird 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Armakolas and Klar 2007, Bird 2007).

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

Two authors: (Armakolas and Klar 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pravec et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Auk
Abbreviation	Auk
ISSN (print)	0004-8038
ISSN (online)	1938-4254
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics