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

Roberge A. 2014. Astronomy: Hurling comets around a planetary nursery. Nature 514:440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ. 2011. Mineralogical constraints on Precambrian pCO2. Nature 474:E1-2; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nørskov JK, Bligaard T, Kleis J. 2009. Chemistry. Rate control and reaction engineering. Science 324:1655–1656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chow SS, Wilke CO, Ofria C, Lenski RE, Adami C. 2004. Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms. Science 305:84–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo M. 2014. Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Poovendran R, Saad W (Eds). 2014. Decision and Game Theory for Security: 5th International Conference, GameSec 2014, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 6-7, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 381 p. 83 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Cabanillas C, Resinas M, Ruiz-Cortés A. 2012. Automated Resource Assignment in BPMN Models Using RACI Matrices. In: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I, R. Meersman, H. Panetto, T. Dillon, S. Rinderle-Ma, P. Dadam, X. Zhou, S. Pearson, A. Ferscha, S. Bergamaschi, and I. F. Cruz, editors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 56–73.

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 Journal of Wildlife Diseases.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. 3D Printing Gave This Cancer Survivor A New Jaw. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-printing-gave-this-cancer-survivor-a-new-jaw/. 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. 1976. Stronger Measures Needed To Insure That Medical Diathermy Devices Are Safe and Effective. 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

Ritter D. 2008. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Rothenberg B. 2017. For 239th-Ranked Player, Faith in Qualifying Pays Off. New York Times:D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roberge 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Reinhard and Planavsky 2011; Roberge 2014).

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

Two authors: (Reinhard and Planavsky 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chow et al. 2004)

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