How to format your references using the Waves in Random and Complex Media citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Waves in Random and Complex Media. 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]

Sawyers CL. The cancer biomarker problem. Nature. 2008;452(7187):548–552.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brubaker SW, Monack DM. IMMUNOLOGY. Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense. Science. 2015;348(6240):1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moles A, Kieffer BL, D’Amato FR. Deficit in attachment behavior in mice lacking the mu-opioid receptor gene. Science. 2004;304(5679):1983–1986.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Krause AE, Frank KA, Mason DM, et al. Compartments revealed in food-web structure. Nature. 2003;426(6964):282–285.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vignes A. Extractive Metallurgy 3. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bonavida B, editor. Resistance to Immunotherapeutic Antibodies in Cancer: Strategies to Overcome Resistance. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Craig RG, Kotanko P. Interactions Between Periodontal Disease and Chronic Kidney Diseases. In: Craig RG, Kamer AR, editors. A Clinician’s Guide to Systemic Effects of Periodontal Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 53–65.

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 Waves in Random and Complex Media.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Rombertik ‘Kamikaze Virus’ Is Inventive And Aggressive, But It’s Not The End Of The World. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Data on the Office of Education’s Use of Funds for Conferences, Seminars, and Training Sessions, and Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations in Lieu of Federal Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975. Report No.: MWD-75-88. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson DM. Prison nursery programs: Measuring society’s perceptions and support [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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]

Walsh MW. Consequences in a Fiscal Plan. New York Times. 2012 Dec 20;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	Waves in Random and Complex Media
Abbreviation	Waves Random Complex Media
ISSN (print)	1745-5030
ISSN (online)	1745-5049
Scope	General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy