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

Boehncke W-H (2012) Perspective: Don’t be superficial. Nature 492:S55

A journal article with 2 authors

Ganopolski A, Rahmstorf S (2001) Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model. Nature 409:153–158

A journal article with 3 authors

Giustino F, Cohen ML, Louie SG (2008) Small phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in the copper oxide superconductors. Nature 452:975–978

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ordovas-Montanes J, Dwyer DF, Nyquist SK, et al (2018) Allergic inflammatory memory in human respiratory epithelial progenitor cells. Nature 560:649–654

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh R (2016) Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Singh M (ed) (2016) Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 20th Annual Conference, RECOMB 2016, Santa Monica, CA, USA, April 17-21, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gelsthorpe L, Durnescu I (2016) Probation Supervision for Women and Young Offenders. In: Kury H, Redo S, Shea E (eds) Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration: Suggestions for Succeeding Generations (Volume 2). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 117–143

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

Hamilton K (2015) NASA To Use Hoverboard Technology To Control CubeSats In Space. 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 (1979) Data Base Management Systems--Without Careful Planning There Can Be Problems. 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

Kolaski GW (2010) Cultural awareness and the U.S. military advisor in the Arab Middle East: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Gustines GG (2010) Look! Up in the Sky! Hoping for Broadway! New York Times AR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boehncke 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf 2001; Boehncke 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ordovas-Montanes et al. 2018)

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

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