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

Haber JE (2006) Comment on “Cell type regulates selective segregation of mouse chromosome 7 DNA strands in mitosis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313:1045; author reply 1045.

A journal article with 2 authors

Südhof TC, Rothman JE (2009) Membrane fusion: grappling with SNARE and SM proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323:474–477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khan P, Jain H, Adarsh KV (2014) Role of Ge:As ratio in controlling the light-induced response of a-Ge(x)As(35-x)Se65 thin films. Scientific reports 4:4029.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lamers MH, Perrakis A, Enzlin JH, et al (2000) The crystal structure of DNA mismatch repair protein MutS binding to a G x T mismatch. Nature 407:711–717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsch R (2017) Convergence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Abraham A, Hassanien A-E, Leon F. de Carvalho AP de, Snášel V (eds) (2009) Foundations of Computational, IntelligenceVolume 6: Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fiorini S (2013) Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with “Participatory GIS.” In: Brondízio ES, Moran EF (eds) Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–112

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) This Ultrathin “Invisibility Cloak” Makes It Impossible To See Microscopic Objects. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ultrathin-invisibility-cloak-makes-it-impossible-see-microscopic-objects/. 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 (2005) Commercial Aviation: Survey of Small Community Air Service Grantees and Applicants, an E-supplement to GAO-06-21. 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

Gardner RD (2010) A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD, Goodstein L, Haberman M (2017) Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches That Actively Take Part in Politics. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haber 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Haber 2006; Südhof and Rothman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Südhof and Rothman 2009)
Three or more authors: (Lamers et al 2000)

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