How to format your references using the Wildlife Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wildlife Research. 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

Rasio FA (2011). Astronomy. A black widow’s best friend? Science (New York, N.Y.) 333, 1712–1713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba JAR, Berger EA (2006). Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, 1921–1924.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allen M, Raper S, Mitchell J (2001). Climate change. Uncertainty in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 430–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ravelli RBG, Gigant B, Curmi PA, Jourdain I, Lachkar S, Sobel A, Knossow M (2004). Insight into tubulin regulation from a complex with colchicine and a stathmin-like domain. Nature 428, 198–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford S, Saunders M (2012). ‘Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation’. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Antoniou G, Grobelnik M, Simperl E, Parsia B, Plexousakis D, Leenheer PD, Pan J (Eds.) (2011). ‘The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29-June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part I’. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Krauss JK (2009). History of Stereotactic Surgery in Germany. In ‘Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery’. (Eds AM Lozano, PL Gildenberg, RR Tasker.) pp. 53–58. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Wildlife Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014). Wild Gorillas Observed Using Tools To Acquire Food For First Time. IFLScience.

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 (2009). Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Has Improved Its Risk Management Approach, but Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Project Costs. GAO-09-751. 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

Torres-Partida A (2014). Bridging the gap between faith based leaders and mental health professionals. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh MW (2010). After a Pension Fraud Case, Wondering Who’s Up Next. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rasio 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kaleeba and Berger 2006; Rasio 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kaleeba and Berger 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ravelli et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wildlife Research
Abbreviation	Wildl. Res.
ISSN (print)	1035-3712
ISSN (online)	1448-5494
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law