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]

Lipton SA. Turning down, but not off. Nature. 2004;428:473.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rauch W, Kleidorfer M. Water treatment. Replace contamination, not the pipes. Science. 2014;345:734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science. 2004;305:1125–1128.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Dehaene S, Izard V, Pica P, et al. Core knowledge of geometry in an Amazonian indigene group. Science. 2006;311:381–384.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Galwey NW. Introduction to Mixed Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Volkmann CK. Entrepreneurship in a European Perspective: Concepts for the Creation and Growth of New Ventures. Tokarski KO, Grünhagen M, editors. Wiesbaden: Gabler; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Colin J-N, Tien HM. Securing a Loosely-Coupled Web-Based eLearning Ecosystem Combining Open Standards. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, editors. Web Information Systems and Technologies: 10th International Conference, WEBIST 2014, Barcelona, Spain, April 3-5, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 48–62.

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

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Andrew D. Here’s What Could Happen To Earth Over The Next 500 Years If We Ignore Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Commercial Aviation: Program Aimed at High-Risk Parent Abductors Could Aid in Preventing Abductions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011. Report No.: GAO-11-602. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bearden BA. Followership as perceived by leaders in a multidisciplinary healthcare organization [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Jan 13;MM26.

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

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