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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gewin V. 2007. Crunch time for multiple-gene tests. Nature 445:354–355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Youle RJ, van der Bliek AM. 2012. Mitochondrial fission, fusion, and stress. Science 337:1062–1065.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glasauer S, Langley S, Beveridge TJ. 2002. Intracellular iron minerals in a dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. Science 295:117–119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen G, Gao X, Gao B, Granger DE. 2009. Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with (26)Al/(10)Be burial dating. Nature 458:198–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Martini D. 2013. Success Probability Estimation with Applications to Clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Blecker T, Friedrich G (Eds). 2006. Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions. Springer US, Boston, MA, XVI, 282 p. 63 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark E, Pompa JL. 2009. Women and Traumatic Brain Injury. In: The Neuropsychology of Women, E. Fletcher-Janzen, editor. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 1–18.

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 Journal of Wildlife Diseases.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. “Smart Sex Toy” Company Accused Of Collecting Intimate Data. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/smart-sex-toy-company-accused-of-collecting-intimate-data/. Accessed October 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. 1996. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Projects and Planning Issues. 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

Arens JL. 2015. Power, Oppression, and Group Difference Interrogation: A Call to Social Justice Movement Organizations. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hodara S. 2017. A Westchester Town With Acres of Open Land. New York Times:RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2007; Youle and van der Bliek 2012).

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

Two authors: (Youle and van der Bliek 2012)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Wildl. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0090-3558
ISSN (online)	1943-3700
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology