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

Leutgeb, S. 2008. Neuroscience. Detailed differences. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319:1623–1624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shorter, J., and S. Lindquist. 2004. Hsp104 catalyzes formation and elimination of self-replicating Sup35 prion conformers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304:1793–1797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davis, S. J., K. Caldeira, and H. D. Matthews. 2010. Future CO2 emissions and climate change from existing energy infrastructure. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329:1330–1333.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Damanik, F. F. R., T. C. Rothuizen, C. van Blitterswijk, J. I. Rotmans, and L. Moroni. 2014. Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix. Scientific reports 4:6325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch, I., S. Turpin, B. Johnston, A. MacLullich, and E. Losman. 2014. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Schwartz, A. J., M. Kumar, B. L. Adams, and D. P. Field, editors. 2009. Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Marek, T., and O. Krejcar. 2015. Optimization of 3D Rendering in Mobile Devices. Pages 37–48 in M. Younas, I. Awan, and M. Mecella, editors. Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems: 12th International Conference, MobiWis 2015, Rome, Italy, August 24-26, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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. 2014. Beautiful Park Spends Half The Year Completely Underwater. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beautiful-park-spends-half-year-completely-underwater/>. 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. 1992. Railroad Safety: Engineer Work Shift Length and Schedule Variability. 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

Kranz, T. E. 2017. Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Yablonsky, L. 2010. Motorcycle Derby. New York Times26 September 2010:ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leutgeb 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Shorter and Lindquist 2004, Leutgeb 2008).

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

Two authors: (Shorter and Lindquist 2004)
Three or more authors: (Damanik et al. 2014)

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