How to format your references using the The Condor citation style

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

Stambolic, V. (2015). Cancer: Precise control of localized signals. Nature 522:38–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayes, J. J., and H. S. Malik (2009). Altered heterochromatin binding by a hybrid sterility protein in Drosophila sibling species. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326:1538–1541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lanzillo, N. A., N. Kharche, and S. K. Nayak (2014). Substrate-induced band gap renormalization in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Scientific reports 4:3609.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Poulikakos, P. I., Y. Persaud, M. Janakiraman, X. Kong, C. Ng, G. Moriceau, H. Shi, M. Atefi, B. Titz, M. T. Gabay, M. Salton, et al. (2011). RAF inhibitor resistance is mediated by dimerization of aberrantly spliced BRAF(V600E). Nature 480:387–390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shaw, M. T. (2011). Introduction to Polymer Rheology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mesoudi, A., and K. Aoki (Editors) (2015). Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Muijs, D., M. Ainscow, C. Chapman, and M. West (2011). Societal Theories of Networking and Collaboration. In Collaboration and Networking in Education (M. Ainscow, C. Chapman and M. West, Editors). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–36.

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 Condor.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Declining Winter Sea Ice Near Greenland Spells Cooler Climate For Europe. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/declining-winter-sea-ice-near-greenland-spells-cooler-climate-europe/.

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 (1998). Airport Improvement Program: Planned Funding Under Letters of Intent. U.S. Government Printing Office RCED-99-33R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ogawa, N. (2012). A Man Walks into the World.

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

Crow, K. (2003). Mayor Lifts Ban for Chinese New Year Fireworks Shows. New York Times:B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stambolic 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bayes and Malik 2009, Stambolic 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bayes and Malik 2009)
Three or more authors: (Poulikakos et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Condor
Abbreviation	Condor
ISSN (print)	0010-5422
ISSN (online)	1938-5129
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics