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

Schimel, D. 2006. Ecology. Climate change and crop yields: beyond Cassandra. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1889–1890.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mas-Ballesté, R., and L. Que Jr. 2006. Chemistry. Targeting specific C-H bonds for oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1885–1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X. … H. You. 2010. Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers. Nature 464: 1338–1341.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Bauer, J. … F. Kessler. 2000. The major protein import receptor of plastids is essential for chloroplast biogenesis. Nature 403: 203–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bush, J. … R.J. Parker. 2016. Cognitive Self Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gries, D. 2005. Multimedia Introduction to Programming Using Java. (P. Gries, Ed.). Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Amato, A. 2008. On the Legitimacy of International Institutions. Pages 83–92 in Legitimacy in International Law (R. Wolfrum and V. Röben, 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

Andrews, R. 2016. Scientists Reveal How Humanity Could Survive The End Of The World. 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. 1992. Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. 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

Gikiri, M.M. 2012. Effects of attitude, norms, and perceived behavior control on intentions to become a teen father. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Brantley, B. 2017. Generations Aching to Connect. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schimel 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Schimel 2006; Mas-Ballesté and Que 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mas-Ballesté and Que 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bauer et al. 2000)

About the journal

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