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

Buckingham S (2003) Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature 425:209–215

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamanaka S, Blau HM (2010) Nuclear reprogramming to a pluripotent state by three approaches. Nature 465:704–712

A journal article with 3 authors

Li H, Li WX, Ding SW (2002) Induction and suppression of RNA silencing by an animal virus. Science 296:1319–1321

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blisniuk PM, Hacker BR, Glodny J, et al (2001) Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago. Nature 412:628–632

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield P (2006) Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Tomalty R (2015) America’s Urban Future: Lessons from North of the Border. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC

A chapter in an edited book

Bergweiler W (2005) Periodic Fatou Components and Singularities of the Inverse Function. In: Barsegian GA, Begehr HGW (eds) Topics in Analysis and its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 47–59

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

Davis J (2017) One Of Africa’s Last Remaining “Giant Tusker” Elephants Has Been Killed By Poachers. In: IFLScience. 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 (2010) Higher Education: Information on Incentive Compensation Violations Substantiated by the U.S. Department of Education. 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

Gravano A (2009) Turn-taking and affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Pilon M (2014) Skating With a Smile, No Matter What. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham 2003; Yamanaka and Blau 2010).

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

Two authors: (Yamanaka and Blau 2010)
Three or more authors: (Blisniuk et al. 2001)

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