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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Wildlife Management. 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

Bignami, G. F. 2000. A 1,000-year chain of thinkers. Nature 404:227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakoff-Nahoum, S., and R. Medzhitov. 2007. Regulation of spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis through the adaptor protein MyD88. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317:124–127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sagy, A., Z. Reches, and J. Fineberg. 2002. Dynamic fracture by large extraterrestrial impacts as the origin of shatter cones. Nature 418:310–313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hayama, R., S. Yokoi, S. Tamaki, M. Yano, and K. Shimamoto. 2003. Adaptation of photoperiodic control pathways produces short-day flowering in rice. Nature 422:719–722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arden, J. B., and L. Linford. 2008. Brain-Based Therapy with Adults. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Baba, A., K. W. F. Howard, and O. Gunduz, editors. 2006. Groundwater and Ecosystems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

McGonagle, J. J., and C. M. Vella. 2012. Figuring Out What You Really Need to Know. Pages 41–52 in C. M. Vella, editor. Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence. Springer, London.

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 The Journal of Wildlife Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. World’s Most Lifelike Bionic Hand Developed. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-most-lifelike-bionic-hand-developed/>. 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. 1988. Highway Safety: Monitoring Practices To Show Compliance With Speed Limits Should Be Reexamined. 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

Russo, D. A. 2010. Cancer: Modeling the distribution of sizes of detectable metastases. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Otis, J. 2016. A Caretaker and Protector Dreams of the ‘Fullest’ Life Possible for Her Sister. New York Times11 December 2016:A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami 2000, Rakoff-Nahoum and Medzhitov 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rakoff-Nahoum and Medzhitov 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hayama et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Wildlife Management
Abbreviation	J. Wildl. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0022-541X
ISSN (online)	1937-2817
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation