The Ecology Citation Style is a style guide intended to serve as instruction for drafting articles that will eventually be published in the journals published by the Ecological Society of America. Therefore, certain standards are rules that would apply to a published article. As a student, you may vary from these rules somewhat. For example, in a published article you would not cite unpublished sources (like a dissertation, thesis, or website). In a student paper, some of those sources may be appropriate or expected. If you are in doubt the best course of action is to talk with your instructor.
Author of website. Year. Title. Publisher, City location, Country location. Website address. (Include date you accessed the web material in parenthesis if required for your assignment). No period after web address.
Example:
R Development Core Team. 2015. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org/ (1/20/2016)
In-text citation: (R Development Core Team 2015)
Example 2:
Service Argos. 2015. Argos user's manual. CLS (Collecte Localization Satelites), Ramonville Saint-Agne, France. http://www.argos-system.org (1/20/2016)
In-text citation: (Service Argos 2015)
Last name, First initial. Second initial., First initial. Second initial. Last name, and First initial. Second initial. Last name. Date. Title of webpage. Sponsoring organization. web address
Example:
Spratt, J. 2002. A history of natural and anthropogenic fire disturbance in central Florida. Katharine Ordway Preserve, Melrose, Florida, USA. http://www.ordway.ufl.edu/firehist.htm
In-text citation: (Spratt 2002)
Example 2:
Simpson, G.L. 2005. Cocorresp:co-correspondence analysis ordination methods 0.1-3. R package.
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html
In-text citation: (Simpson 2005)