How to format your references using the Waterbirds citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Waterbirds. 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

Bower, G.C. 2007. Astronomy. Mining for the ephemeral. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 759–760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hossfeld, U., and L. Olsson. 2002. Portraits of science. From the modern synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, Z. … R.B. Altman. 2004. Genetics. Genomic research and human subject privacy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305: 183.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Hale, P. … R.A. Weiss. 2001. Success hinges on support for treatment. Nature 412: 272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertocchi, M. … W.T. Ziemba. 2010. Optimizing the Aging, Retirement, and Pensions Dilemma. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brinkman, D.B. … J.D. Gardner (eds.). 2013. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanko, E.A., and P. Dawson. 2016. Step Three: Digging Down and Understanding the Problem and Its Context. Pages 19–21 in Police Use of Research Evidence: Recommendations for Improvement (P. Dawson, Ed.). 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 Waterbirds.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. BICEP2 Team Admit Breakthrough Evidence For Big Bang Could Just Be Dust. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/bicep2-team-admit-breakthrough-evidence-big-bang-could-just-be-dust/, accessed, 30 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. 2007. Highway Emergency Relief: Reexamination Needed to Address Fiscal Imbalance and Long-term Sustainability. 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

Jenkins, M.M. 2009. Clinical decision-making and pediatric bipolar disorder. 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

Pilon, M. 2012. Middle Schools Add Team Rule: Get a Drug Test. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bower 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bower 2007; Hossfeld and Olsson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hossfeld and Olsson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hale et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Waterbirds
Abbreviation	Waterbirds
ISSN (print)	1524-4695
ISSN (online)	1938-5390
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology