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

Fei Y (2013) Geophysics. Melting Earth’s core. Science 340:442–443

A journal article with 2 authors

Peacock E, Garshelis DL (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” IV. Science 313:45; author reply 45

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu Y, Huang L, Cao L (2014) Semiconductor solar superabsorbers. Sci Rep 4:4107

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang R, Iwakura Y, Araki K, et al (2013) ErbB2 dephosphorylation and anti-proliferative effects of neuregulin-1 in ErbB2-overexpressing cells; re-evaluation of their low-affinity interaction. Sci Rep 3:1402

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keiser G (2006) FTTX Concepts and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jorio A, Dresselhaus G, Dresselhaus MS (eds) (2008) Carbon Nanotubes: Advanced Topics in the Synthesis, Structure, Properties and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Day JW, Hall C (2016) A Tale of Twelve Cities and Ten Regions. In: Hall C (ed) America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions: Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends. Springer, New York, NY, pp 37–114

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 (2015) Burger King’s Halloween Burger Does Something Scary To Your Poop. 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 (2012) Highway Trust Fund: Pilot Program Could Help Determine the Viability of Mileage Fees for Certain Vehicles. 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

Toothaker RD (2014) A phenomenological study of millennial students and traditional pedagogies. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Macur J (2014) Afterword. 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 (Fei 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Peacock and Garshelis 2006; Fei 2013).

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

Two authors: (Peacock and Garshelis 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wang 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