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

Ito, G. (2001). Reykjanes “V”-shaped ridges originating from a pulsing and dehydrating mantle plume. Nature 411:681–684.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toyoshima, C., and H. Nomura (2002). Structural changes in the calcium pump accompanying the dissociation of calcium. Nature 418:605–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raebiger, H., S. Lany, and A. Zunger (2008). Charge self-regulation upon changing the oxidation state of transition metals in insulators. Nature 453:763–766.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Yang, Z., Y. Xu, T. Xu, C. W. Hoy, D. A. Handwerker, G. Chen, G. Northoff, X.-N. Zuo, and P. A. Bandettini (2014). Brain network informed subject community detection in early-onset schizophrenia. Scientific reports 4:5549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ng, K. K. (2009). Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zschocke, J., K. M. Gibson, G. Brown, E. Morava, and V. Peters (Editors) (2015). JIMD Reports, Volume 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sin, W. (2016). The Water Margin, Moral Degradation, and the Virtue of Zhixing. In Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (C.-M. Lam and J. Park, Editors). Springer, Singapore, pp. 51–65.

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

Luntz, S. (2016). This Is The Most Realistic Reconstruction Of A Dinosaur Ever Made. IFLScience. [Online.] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-is-the-most-realistic-reconstruction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-made/.

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 (1987). Aviation Safety: Needed Improvements in FAA’s Airline Inspection Program Are Underway. U.S. Government Printing Office RCED-87-62.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Angervil, G. (2017). Administrative Discretion in Public Policy Implementation: The Case of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

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

Walsh, M. W., and M. J. de la MERCED (2010). Big Setback For A.I.G. In Repaying Taxpayers. New York Times:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ito 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ito 2001, Toyoshima and Nomura 2002).

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

Two authors: (Toyoshima and Nomura 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2014)

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