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

Mervis J (2000). U.S. POSTDOCS: Report Urges Better Treatment, Status. Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, 1854b–5b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harrisingh MC, Nitabach MN (2008). Circadian rhythms. Integrating circadian timekeeping with cellular physiology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, 879–880.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keimer B, Sackmann E, Withers PJ (2002). Neutron scattering. The case for neutron sources. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, 543.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vecchi GA, Soden BJ, Wittenberg AT, Held IM, Leetmaa A, Harrison MJ (2006). Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing. Nature 441, 73–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans GM, Furlong JC (2010). ‘Environmental Biotechnology’. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Schuh C (2012). ‘The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World’ Eds MF Strohmer, S Easton, A Scharlach, P Scharbert. (Apress: Berkeley, CA)

A chapter in an edited book

Ramamurthy T, Nair GB (2007). Foodborne Pathogenic Vibrios. In ‘Foodborne Diseases’. (Ed S Simjee.) Infectious Disease. pp. 115–156. (Humana Press: Totowa, NJ)

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

Davis J (2015). Scientists Plan On Resurrecting A 30,000-Year-Old Giant Virus. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientist-plan-resurrecting-30000-year-old-virus/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1998). Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA’s Modernization Program. T-RCED/AIMD-98-93. 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

Gonzalez HM (2017). DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan. 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

Stewart JB (2017). Feel Optimistic About the Booming Market? Then Read at Your Own Risk. 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 (Mervis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis 2000; Harrisingh and Nitabach 2008).

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

Two authors: (Harrisingh and Nitabach 2008)
Three or more authors: (Vecchi et al. 2006)

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