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

Hecht, S.S. 2011. Perspective: Tackling the real issues. Nature 471: S18.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbaz, D., and C.J. Cesarsky. 2003. A fossil record of galaxy encounters. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, Z. … U. Schwingenschlögl. 2014. Pressure controlled transition into a self-induced topological superconducting surface state. Scientific reports 4: 4025.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Kambris, Z. … S.P. Sinkins. 2009. Immune activation by life-shortening Wolbachia and reduced filarial competence in mosquitoes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326: 134–136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baher, H. 2012. Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Biere, A. … T. Vos (eds.). 2013. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 8th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2012, Haifa, Israel, November 6-8, 2012. Revised Selected Papers. 7857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Buckland, S.T. … C.S. Oedekoven. 2015. Modelling Detection Functions. Pages 53–103 in Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications (E.A. Rexstad … C.S. Oedekoven, Eds.). 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

Luntz, S. 2017. Smackdown! Venomous Fish Deal Drugs On Coral Reefs. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/smackdown-venomous-fish-deal-drugs-on-coral-reefs/, 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. 1976. Proposed Revision to Armed Services Procurement Regulation for Cost Principles on Independent Research and Development Costs. 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

LaPoint, J.L. 2008. The effects of aviation -based error management training on perioperative safety attitudes. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Cooper, M. 2017. Venezuela Cancels Another Dudamel Tour. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hecht 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hecht 2011; Elbaz and Cesarsky 2003).

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

Two authors: (Elbaz and Cesarsky 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kambris et al. 2009)

About the journal

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