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

Kaufman F. Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water. Nature. 2012 Oct 25;490(7421):469–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forte AM, Mitrovica JX. Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data. Nature. 2001 Apr 26;410(6832):1049–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barth JV, Costantini G, Kern K. Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):671–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ge Z, Bergonci T, Zhao Y, Zou Y, Du S, Liu MC, et al. Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity and sperm release are regulated by RALF-mediated signaling. Science. 2017 Dec 22;358(6370):1596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higman BW. How Food Made History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Chen GN. Granite Genesis: In Situ Melting and Crustal Evolution. Grapes R, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. XI, 278 p. 218 illus., 1 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Gutierrez A, Correa T, Muñoz V, Santibañez A, Marcos R, Cáceres C, et al. Farming of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in southern Chile for development of novel food products. In: Anderson R, Brodie J, Onsøyen E, Critchley AT, editors. Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium, held in Bergen, Norway, 20 – 25 June 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 33–41. (Developments in Applied Phycology).

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

Hale T. Explore Five US National Parks In These 360° Interactive Guided Tours. 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. Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Feb. Report No.: GAO-13-317R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lemay M. Understanding the mechanism of panel attrition [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Kelly Beatty J, Special to The New. EARLY DATA ARRIVE FROM PROBE ON VENUS. New York Times. 1985 Jun 18;C8.

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