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

McEwen AS (2002) Planetary science. Active volcanism on Io. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297:2220–2221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhong S, He S (2013) Ultrathin and lightweight microwave absorbers made of mu-near-zero metamaterials. Scientific reports 3:2083.

A journal article with 3 authors

Majumder A, Ghatak A, Sharma A (2007) Microfluidic adhesion induced by subsurface microstructures. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318:258–261.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Borra EF, Seddiki O, Angel R, et al (2007) Deposition of metal films on an ionic liquid as a basis for a lunar telescope. Nature 447:979–981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker E, Van Grondelle R (2011) Environmental Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dutta R, Kamal AE, Rouskas GN (eds) (2008) Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques, and Frontiers. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Tang X, Zhang N, Wang Z (2007) Exploration of TCM Masters Knowledge Mining. In: Shi Y, Albada GD van, Dongarra J, Sloot PMA (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–42

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

Fang J (2015) Nocturnal Dung Beetles Use Different Celestial Cues Than Those Active In The Day. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nocturnal-dung-beetles-use-different-celestial-cues-those-active-day/. 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 (2002) Space Station: Actions Under Way to Manage Cost, but Significant Challenges Remain. 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

Panteleyeva NB (2010) Statistical methods of latent structure discovery in child-directed speech. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Vecsey G (2012) The Old Guard Welcomes The New Guard. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McEwen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (McEwen 2002; Zhong and He 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhong and He 2013)
Three or more authors: (Borra et al 2007)

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