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

Modugno G (2009) Physics. Universal few-body binding. Science 326:1640–1641

A journal article with 2 authors

Bahr K, Simpson F (2002) Electrical anisotropy below slow- and fast-moving plates: paleoflow in the upper mantle? Science 295:1270–1272

A journal article with 3 authors

Riolo RL, Cohen MD, Axelrod R (2001) Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. Nature 414:441–443

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gu B, Chang J, Min Y, et al (2013) The role of industrial nitrogen in the global nitrogen biogeochemical cycle. Sci Rep 3:2579

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ehrlich E, Fanelli D (2012) The Financial Services Marketing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wu C, Cohen A (eds) (2013) Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies: 10th International Symposium, APPT 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, August 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Matoušek J (2014) String graphs and separators. In: Matoušek J, Nešetřil J, Pellegrini M (eds) Geometry, Structure and Randomness in Combinatorics. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, pp 61–97

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

Andrew E (2014) Planck Reveals Most Detailed Map Yet Of The Milky Way’s Magnetic Field. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/planck-reveals-most-detailed-map-yet-milky-ways-magnetic-field/. 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 (1976) Status and Issues Relating to the Space Transportation System. 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

Ramirez C (2014) Perceived efficacy of the O*NET Skills Search Tool among individuals with high functioning autism. 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

Billard M (2010) Yoga’s Serious. Except When It’s Not. New York Times E6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Modugno 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bahr and Simpson 2002; Modugno 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bahr and Simpson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Gu et al. 2013)

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