How to format your references using the European Journal of Wildlife Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Wildlife Research. 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

Tilgner E (2002) Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? Science 297:731; discussion 731

A journal article with 2 authors

Goddéris Y, Donnadieu Y (2008) Carbon cycling and snowball Earth. Nature 456:E8; author reply E9-10

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamsir A, Tabor JJ, Voigt CA (2011) Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical “wires.” Nature 469:212–215

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wei P, Zhang J, Egan-Hafley M, et al (2000) The nuclear receptor CAR mediates specific xenobiotic induction of drug metabolism. Nature 407:920–923

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2011) The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wuerthner G, Crist E, Butler T (eds) (2015) Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC

A chapter in an edited book

Ncube M, Gumata N, Ndou E (2016) Spillovers from Euro Area Bond Yields into the South African Macro Economy. In: Gumata N, Ndou E (eds) Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 67–80

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 European Journal of Wildlife Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Ancient Artwork Depicts Collapse of Egypt’s Animal Communities. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-artwork-depicts-collapse-egypts-animal-communities/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2013) Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori E (2014) Wavelet transform and neural network. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Brantley B (2017) Hot for a Dairy Queen Sign. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tilgner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Tilgner 2002; Goddéris and Donnadieu 2008).

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

Two authors: (Goddéris and Donnadieu 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Wildlife Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Wildl. Res.
ISSN (print)	1612-4642
ISSN (online)	1439-0574
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Animal Science and Zoology Ecology