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

Edgerton D. 2011. In praise of Luddism. Nature 471:27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin W, Koonin EV. 2006. Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization. Nature 440:41–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhode SC, Pawlowski M, Tollrian R. 2001. The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia. Nature 412:69–72.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reznick DN, Bryant MJ, Roff D, Ghalambor CK, Ghalambor DE. 2004. Effect of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies. Nature 431:1095–1099.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sommers-Flanagan J, Sommers-Flanagan R. 2015. Tough Kids Cool Counseling. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA, USA.

An edited book

Ossowski S (Ed). 2013. Agreement Technologies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XXXVI, 648 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivero AEC. 2012. Multiplicative Structure of the Resolvent Matrix for the Truncated Hausdorff Matrix Moment Problem. In: Interpolation, Schur Functions and Moment Problems II, D. Alpay and B. Kirstein, editors. Springer, Basel. pp. 193–210.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Brains Can Make Decisions While We Sleep – Here They Are In Action. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-can-make-decisions-while-we-sleep-here-they-are-action/. 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. 1999. Results Act: Using Agency Performance Plans to Oversee Early Childhood Programs. 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

Griffin JC. 2012. Animal and soul: Animals in Native American mythologies and the individuation process. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Brantley B. 2016. Haunting Lamentation for an Evanescent Now. New York Times:C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edgerton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Martin and Koonin 2006; Edgerton 2011).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Koonin 2006)
Three or more authors: (Reznick 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