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

Lodge DM (2015) Faith and science can find common ground. Nature 523:503

A journal article with 2 authors

Beatson SA, Walker MJ (2014) Microbiology. Tracking antibiotic resistance. Science 345:1454–1455

A journal article with 3 authors

Agarwala S, Sanders TA, Ragsdale CW (2001) Sonic hedgehog control of size and shape in midbrain pattern formation. Science 291:2147–2150

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tan L, An Z, Huh C-A, et al (2014) Cyclic precipitation variation on the western Loess Plateau of China during the past four centuries. Sci Rep 4:6381

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P (2008) Essential Guide to Generic Skills. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Li WD, McMahon C, Ong SK, Nee AYC (eds) (2007) Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Baracca A, Franconi R (2016) The Decisive Leap in the 1980s: The Attainment of Cuba’s Scientific Autonomy. In: Franconi R (ed) Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba’s Outstanding Achievements in Science and Biotechnology, 1959-2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–73

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

Andrew E (2015) Ancient Egyptian “Scandal” Discovered With X-Rays. In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) NASA’s FMFIA Assertions and CFO Plan. 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

Krug KA (2009) Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Baker P, Fisher I (2017) Trump Stresses Palestinian Deal. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lodge 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Beatson and Walker 2014; Lodge 2015).

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

Two authors: (Beatson and Walker 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al. 2014)

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