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

John S (2009). Photonics: Light control at will. Nature 460, 337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiao L, Liu X (2015). Structural basis of histone H3K27 trimethylation by an active polycomb repressive complex 2. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, aac4383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn SG, Campbell EB, MacKinnon R (2014). Physical mechanism for gating and mechanosensitivity of the human TRAAK K+ channel. Nature 516, 126–130.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanimura A, Takashima M, Sugita T, Endoh R, Kikukawa M, Yamaguchi S, Sakuradani E, Ogawa J, Ohkuma M, Shima J (2014). Cryptococcus terricola is a promising oleaginous yeast for biodiesel production from starch through consolidated bioprocessing. Scientific reports 4, 4776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billington DP (2013). ‘Der Turm und die Brücke’. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH: D-69451 Weinheim, Germany)

An edited book

Elhanany I, Hamdi M (Eds.) (2007). ‘High-performance Packet Switching Architectures’. (Springer: London)

A chapter in an edited book

Kelsey TW, Hardy K (2015). Marcellus Shale and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In ‘Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Case Studies and Impacts’. (Eds WE Hefley, Y Wang.) pp. 93–120. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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). Our Galaxy Is Much Lighter Than We Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-galaxy-much-lighter-we-thought/ [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 (1991). Computer Operations: FAA Needs to Implement an Effective Capacity Management Program. IMTEC-92-2. 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

Stoltzfus KM (2010). The relationship between teachers’ training transfer and their perceptions of principal leadership style. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005). Arts, Briefly; Rare Violin in the Spotlight. New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (John 2009).
This sentence cites two references (John 2009; Jiao and Liu 2015).

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

Two authors: (Jiao and Liu 2015)
Three or more authors: (Tanimura et al. 2014)

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