How to format your references using the Human-Wildlife Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human-Wildlife Interactions. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Binzel, R. P. 2014. Human spaceflight: Find asteroids to get to Mars. Nature 514:559–561.
A journal article with 2 authors
Liu, Q., and X. Wang. 2013. Opinion dynamics with similarity-based random neighbors. Scientific reports 3:2968.
A journal article with 3 authors
Okada, D., F. Ozawa, and K. Inokuchi. 2009. Input-specific spine entry of soma-derived Vesl-1S protein conforms to synaptic tagging. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324:904–909.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Ng, K. L., J.-D. Li, M. Y. Cheng, F. M. Leslie, A. G. Lee, and Q.-Y. Zhou. 2005. Dependence of olfactory bulb neurogenesis on prokineticin 2 signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308:1923–1927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Khatib, T., and W. Elmenreich. 2016. Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Passeron, T., and J.-P. Ortonne, editors. 2016. Atlas of Pigmentary Disorders. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Srihari, R. K. 2009. Unapparent Information Revelation: Text Mining for Counterterrorism. Pages 67–87 in S. Argamon and N. Howard, editors. Computational Methods for Counterterrorism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Human-Wildlife Interactions.

Blog post
Andrews, R. 2016. Violent Volcanic Eruption In Costa Rica Smothers Capital City In Ash. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/violent-volcanic-eruption-costa-rica-has-smothered-capital-city-ash/>. 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. 2003. Freight Transportation: Strategies Needed to Address Planning and Financing Limitations. 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
Stanton, B. 2009. On location: Race and family in the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, and Cathy Song. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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
Walsh, M. W. 2012. New Jersey’s Pension Plan Is Said to Still Be in Trouble. New York Times14 December 2012:A34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binzel 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Wang 2013, Binzel 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Liu and Wang 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Ng et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal titleHuman-Wildlife Interactions
ISSN (print)2155-3858
ISSN (online)2155-3874
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