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

Smaglik, P. (2009). State of energy. Nature 458:1208–1209.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilga, C. D., and G. V. Lauder (2004). Biomechanics: hydrodynamic function of the shark’s tail. Nature 430:850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryckman, J. D., Y. Jiao, and S. M. Weiss (2013). Three-dimensional patterning and morphological control of porous nanomaterials by gray-scale direct imprinting. Scientific reports 3:1502.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Pochan, D. J., Z. Chen, H. Cui, K. Hales, K. Qi, and K. L. Wooley (2004). Toroidal triblock copolymer assemblies. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306:94–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle, M. (2016). Ionic and Electrochemical Equilibria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Masters, J. R., and B. Ø. Palsson (Editors) (2009). Human Adult Stem Cells. 1st edition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira, L., F. Balaguer, and A. Goel (2015). The Epigenetics in Intestinal Tumorigenesis. In Intestinal Tumorigenesis: Mechanisms of Development & Progression (V. W. Yang and A. B. Bialkowska, Editors). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 137–168.

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

Andrew, E. (2015). Brains Work Via Their Genes Just As Much As Their Neurons. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-work-their-genes-just-much-their-neurons/.

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 (2002). Desktop Outsourcing: Positive Results Reported, but Analyses Could Be Strengthened. U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-02-329.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen, M. W. (2017). Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam Era.

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

Ellis, B. E. (2017). Still Here. New York Times:M2118.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wilga and Lauder 2004, Smaglik 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wilga and Lauder 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pochan et al. 2004)

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