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Ecology Citation Generator
Generate references in Ecology from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What an Ecology reference looks like
Ecology is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis, L. S., and M. Q. Martindale. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119:e2113701119.
Book
Kuhn, T. S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC. 2021, August 9. Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/.
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, C. R., K. J. Millman, S. J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, N. J. Smith, R. Kern, M. Picus, S. Hoyer, M. H. van Kerkwijk, M. Brett, A. Haldane, J. F. del Río, M. Wiebe, P. Peterson, P. Gérard-Marchant, K. Sheppard, T. Reddy, W. Weckesser, H. Abbasi, C. Gohlke, and T. E. Oliphant. 2020. Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585:357–362.
Ecology at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in biology.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
- First names are shortened to initials.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent and double spacing.
- The style file was last updated in September 2012.
The guide this style follows: esapubs.org
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does Ecology list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
How does Ecology handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages are cited without an access date.
How is the reference list ordered in Ecology?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent and double spacing.
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