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

Jardine M (2010) Astronomy. Sunscreen for the young Earth. Science 327:1206–1207

A journal article with 2 authors

Holm EA, Foiles SM (2010) How grain growth stops: a mechanism for grain-growth stagnation in pure materials. Science 328:1138–1141

A journal article with 3 authors

Marsh AG, Maxson RE Jr, Manahan DT (2001) High macromolecular synthesis with low metabolic cost in Antarctic sea urchin embryos. Science 291:1950–1952

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Berkley AJ, Xu H, Ramos RC, et al (2003) Entangled macroscopic quantum States in two superconducting qubits. Science 300:1548–1550

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs J, Titchen A (2008) Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Sun X, Liu A, Chao H-C, Bertino E (eds) (2016) Cloud Computing and Security: Second International Conference, ICCCS 2016, Nanjing, China, July 29-31, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Giacomazzi P, Poli A (2009) Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks. In: Wang C (ed) AccessNets: Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 46–61

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) Chemical Attraction: Why Mosquitos Zone In On Some People, But Not Others. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chemical-attraction-why-mosquitos-zone-some-people-not-others/. 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 (1998) Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues Associated With a Possible Amtrak Liquidation. 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

CampBell PK (2012) Lenses of indigenous feminism: Digging up the roots of Western patriarchy in “Perma Red” and “Monkey Beach.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Feeney K (2007) Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch). New York Times NJ14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jardine 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jardine 2010; Holm and Foiles 2010).

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

Two authors: (Holm and Foiles 2010)
Three or more authors: (Berkley et al. 2003)

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