How to format your references using the Wave Motion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wave Motion. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

T.F. Rosenbaum, A new spin on magnets, Nature 404 (2000) 556–557.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Sekkal, A. Zaoui, Nanoscale analysis of the morphology and surface stability of calcium carbonate polymorphs, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1587.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Lillo, J.D. Farmer, R.N. Mantegna, Econophysics: Master curve for price-impact function, Nature 421 (2003) 129–130.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Koenigs, L. Young, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel, F. Cushman, M. Hauser, A. Damasio, Koenigs et al. reply, Nature 452 (2008) e5–e6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Le Bodic, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A.R. Boccaccini, S.E. Harding, eds., Myocardial Tissue Engineering, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Á.S. Pereira, P. Lains, From an Agrarian Society to a Knowledge Economy? The Rising Importance of Education to the Portuguese Economy, 1950–2009, in: G. Neave, A. Amaral (Eds.), Higher Education in Portugal 1974-2009: A Nation, a Generation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 109–134.

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 Wave Motion.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Watch A “Ring Of Fire” Solar Eclipse Live From Africa, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Wood Utilization: Federal Research and Product Development Activities, Support, and Technology Transfer, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.C. Frost, Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

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

[1]

S. Antilla, 69 Red Flags Catch Up to a Broker, New York Times (2015) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Wave Motion
Abbreviation	Wave Motion
ISSN (print)	0165-2125
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy