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

Harnett MM. Immunology. B cells spread and gather. Science. 2006 May 5;312(5774):709–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Legler B, Moore G. East German academics faced unfair hurdles. Nature. 2000 Jan 13;403(6766):130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thommes EW, Matsumura S, Rasio FA. Gas disks to gas giants: simulating the birth of planetary systems. Science. 2008 Aug 8;321(5890):814–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jerby E, Dikhtyar V, Aktushev O, Grosglick U. The microwave drill. Science. 2002 Oct 18;298(5593):587–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Box GEP, Luceño A, Paniagua-Quiñones MDC. Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Grabot B, Vallespir B, Gomes S, Bouras A, Kiritsis D, editors. Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. XXI, 611 p. 187 illus. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 438).

A chapter in an edited book

Offenberg AK. The Riddle of the Baskets of 1726. In: Baasten MFJ, Munk R, editors. Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture: Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 57–80.

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

Hamilton K. Will We Ever Be Able To Bring Cryogenically Frozen Corpses Back To Life? A Cryobiologist Explains. IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit Grants: UMTA Needs to Improve Procurement Monitoring at Local Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: RCED-89-94.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson-Tessi M. Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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

Dinardo K. Deborah Davis on Andy Warhol and Driving Route 66. New York Times. 2015 Oct 11;TR3.

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