How to format your references using the Wetlands citation style

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

Hilton D (2015) Practical policies can combat gender inequality. Nature 523:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haass C, Kahle PJ (2001) Neuroscience. Parkin and its substrates. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293:224–225.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miles MA, Yeo M, Mauricio IL (2009) Genetics. Leishmania exploit sex. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324:187–189.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang J-S, Kim J, Park S, et al (2013) Spatial and functional organization of mitochondrial protein network. Scientific reports 3:1403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn JF (2013) Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Garcia A, Choren R, Lucena C, et al (eds) (2006) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV: Research Issues and Practical Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Müller P, Quintana FA, Jara A, Hanson T (2015) Categorical Data. In: Quintana FA, Jara A, Hanson T (eds) Bayesian Nonparametric Data Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–100

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 Wetlands.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) What Did Neanderthals Sound Like? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-neanderthals-have-high-pitched-voices/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2008) Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cao Y (2006) Morphological and Functional Characterization of the Neurotransmitter GABA in Adult Rat Taste Buds. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Sisario B (2017) Beyoncé and Radiohead to Headline Coachella. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hilton 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Haass and Kahle 2001; Hilton 2015).

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

Two authors: (Haass and Kahle 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wetlands
Abbreviation	Wetlands (Wilmington)
ISSN (print)	0277-5212
ISSN (online)	1943-6246
Scope	General Environmental Science Ecology Environmental Chemistry