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

Bucksbaum, P.H. 2006. Chemistry. The first femtosecond in the life of a chemical reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 373–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Novas, F.E., and D. Pol. 2005. New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433: 858–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sarbu, T. … E.J. Beckman. 2000. Non-fluorous polymers with very high solubility in supercritical CO2 down to low pressures. Nature 405: 165–168.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Grogg, M.W. … P.A. Tsonis. 2005. BMP inhibition-driven regulation of six-3 underlies induction of newt lens regeneration. Nature 438: 858–862.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambaum, M.H.P. 2010. Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Braha, D. … Y. Bar-Yam (eds.). 2006. Complex Engineered Systems: Science Meets Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kashef, M.M., and J. Altmann. 2012. A Cost Model for Hybrid Clouds. Pages 46–60 in Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (K. Vanmechelen … O.F. Rana, Eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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. 2015. Here’s What Ariel Would Look Like If She Evolved In The Deep Ocean. IFLScience. 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. 2000. National Airspace System: Problems Plaguing the Wide Area Augmentation System and FAA’s Actions to Address Them. 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

Frederique, N.P. 2010. The effectiveness of school based intensive probation for reducing recidivism: An evaluation of Maryland’s Spotlight on Schools program. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Protess, B. 2017. Trump Picks an Overseer of Derivatives Trading. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bucksbaum 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bucksbaum 2006; Novas and Pol 2005).

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

Two authors: (Novas and Pol 2005)
Three or more authors: (Grogg et al. 2005)

About the journal

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