How to format your references using the Wetlands Ecology and Management citation style

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

Rakic P (2006) Neuroscience. No more cortical neurons for you. Science 313:928–929

A journal article with 2 authors

Gweon H, Schulz L (2011) 16-month-olds rationally infer causes of failed actions. Science 332:1524

A journal article with 3 authors

Arjona A, Escudero M, Gómez CM (2014) Updating of attentional and premotor allocation resources as function of previous trial outcome. Sci Rep 4:4526

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boustany AM, Davis SF, Pyle P, et al (2002) Expanded niche for white sharks. Nature 415:35–36

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park S, Guille-Escuret G (2017) Sociobiology vs Socioecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Muntean T, Poulakis D, Rolland R (eds) (2013) Algebraic Informatics: 5th International Conference, CAI 2013, Porquerolles, France, September 3-6, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kappos AJ, Goutzika ED, Stefanidou SP, Sextos AG (2011) Problems in Pushover Analysis of Bridges Sensitive to Torsion. In: Papadrakakis M, Fragiadakis M, Lagaros ND (eds) Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 99–122

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 Ecology and Management.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Scientists Find Fish Not Seen Since The 1870s. There’s Something Rather Strange About It. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/faceless-fish-rediscovered-in-australia-after-not-being-seen-since-the-1870s/. 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 (2001) FTS 2001 Implementation Issues. 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

Heatlie JM (2015) Effects of Simulation on Senior Nursing Students’ Patient Safety Competence: A Quantitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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 (2013) In Snowstorm, U.S. Finds Remedy For a Cold Spell. New York Times SP9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rakic 2006; Gweon and Schulz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gweon and Schulz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Boustany et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wetlands Ecology and Management
Abbreviation	Wetl. Ecol. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0923-4861
ISSN (online)	1572-9834
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law