How to format your references using the Webbia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Webbia. 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

Barber RT. 2007. Oceans. Picoplankton do some heavy lifting. Science. 315(5813):777–778.

A journal article with 2 authors

Noriega C, Araujo M. 2014. Carbon dioxide emissions from estuaries of northern and northeastern Brazil. Sci Rep. 4:6164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howes PD, Chandrawati R, Stevens MM. 2014. Bionanotechnology. Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors. Science. 346(6205):1247390.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

McManus JF, Francois R, Gherardi J-M, Keigwin LD, Brown-Leger S. 2004. Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature. 428(6985):834–837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casper D. 2011. Hollywood Film 1963-1976. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Liljedahl P. 2016. Problem Solving in Mathematics Education. Santos-Trigo M, Malaspina U, Bruder R, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Maricau E, Gielen G. 2013. Analog IC Reliability Simulation. In: Gielen G, editor. Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS. New York, NY: Springer; p. 93–149.

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 Webbia.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Fifty Years Since The First US Soft Landing On The Moon. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/fifty-years-since-the-first-us-soft-landing-on-the-moon/

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. Motor Vehicle Regulations: Regulatory Cost Estimates Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weaver PQ. 2008. Relationships between leadership practices of founders and successors and economic performance of select family businesses [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Hu W, Remnick N. 2015. Belated Focus on Prime Suspect in an Outbreak. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barber 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Barber 2007; Noriega and Araujo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Noriega and Araujo 2014)
Three or more authors: (McManus et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Webbia
Abbreviation	Webbia
ISSN (print)	0083-7792
ISSN (online)	2169-4060
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Ecology