How to format your references using the Western Pacific Surveillance and Response citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Western Pacific Surveillance and Response. 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

Angerer P. Graduate journal: PhD limitations. Nature. 2004 Oct 28;431(7012):1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koch C, Crick F. The zombie within. Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vannucchi P, Remitti F, Bettelli G. Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary. Nature. 2008 Feb 7;451(7179):699–703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang B, Lu M, Jolly MK, Tsarfaty I, Onuchic J, Ben-Jacob E. The three-way switch operation of Rac1/RhoA GTPase-based circuit controlling amoeboid-hybrid-mesenchymal transition. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 23;4:6449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll JM, Bowyer-Crane C, Duff FJ, Hulme C, Snowling MJ. Developing Language and Literacy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Keckler SW, Olukotun K, Hofstee HP, editors. Multicore Processors and Systems. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. XVIII, 301 p. (Integrated Circuits and Systems).

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor-Clark T. Histamine in Allergic Rhinitis. In: Thurmond RL, editor. Histamine in Inflammation. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 33–41. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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 Western Pacific Surveillance and Response.

Blog post

Davis J. Giant Pterosaurs May Have Been Munching On Human-Sized Dinosaurs. 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

Government Accountability Office. Changing Patterns of Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, 1969-75. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Dec. Report No.: PAD-78-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Powell JE. Menasha Litigation: Wake-Up Call or Just A False Alarm [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2013.

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

Crow K. Selling Tea as Serenity, Not Snobbery. New York Times. 2000 Oct 1;144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Abbreviation	Western Pac. Surveill. Response J.
ISSN (print)	2094-7321
ISSN (online)	2094-7313
Scope	General Medicine