How to format your references using the Wader Study citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wader Study. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kerr, R.A. 2000. SAVING KYOTO: A Well-Intentioned Cleanup Gets Mixed Reviews. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 921.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilmore, M.S. & J.J. Ferretti. 2003. Microbiology. The thin line between gut commensal and pathogen. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 1999–2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falnes, P.Ø., R.F. Johansen & E. Seeberg. 2002. AlkB-mediated oxidative demethylation reverses DNA damage in Escherichia coli. Nature 419: 178–182.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Baron, M.K., T.M. Boeckers, B. Vaida, S. Faham, M. Gingery, M.R. Sawaya, D. Salyer, E.D. Gundelfinger & J.U. Bowie. 2006. An architectural framework that may lie at the core of the postsynaptic density. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 531–535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taha, A.-E.M., H.S. Hassanein & N.A. Ali. 2011. LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mishra, R., M.W. Mahoney, Y. Sato, Y. Hovanski & R. Verma, Eds. 2016. Friction Stir Welding and Processing VII. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wijesundara, M.B.J. & R.G. Azevedo. 2011. Packaging. Pages 167–188 in: Silicon Carbide Microsystems for Harsh Environments (R. Azevedo, Ed.). Springer, New York, NY.

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 Wader Study.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Google Releases Stunning Underwater Street View For World Oceans Day. IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018 at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-releases-stunning-underwater-street-view-world-oceans-day/.

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. 2016. NASA Human Space Exploration: Opportunity Nears to Reassess Launch Vehicle and Ground Systems Cost and Schedule. No. GAO-16-612. 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

Obi, C.N. 2012. Evaluation of feeding varying levels of digestible lysine on broiler breeder male reproductive characteristics and body weight changes. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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. Federer Beats Wawrinka, and His Own Aging Body, to Reach Final. New York Times: B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000, Gilmore & Ferretti 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gilmore & Ferretti 2003)
Three or more authors: (Baron et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wader Study
ISSN (print)	2058-8410
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