How to format your references using the World Journal of Meta-Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Meta-Analysis. 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

Canup RM. Origin of Saturn’s rings and inner moons by mass removal from a lost Titan-sized satellite. Nature 2010; 468: 943–946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bunge HP, Grand SP. Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab. Nature 2000; 405: 337–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B. Superconductivity in molecular crystals induced by charge injection. Nature 2000; 406: 702–704.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ansorge MS, Zhou M, Lira A, Hen R, Gingrich JA. Early-life blockade of the 5-HT transporter alters emotional behavior in adult mice. Science 2004; 306: 879–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schumer PD. Mathematical Journeys. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ho R, Drost R (eds). Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao F, Dai FF. Design and Analysis of A Low Power QVCO with Capacitive-Coupling Technique. In: Dai FF, editor. Low-Noise Low-Power Design for Phase-Locked Loops: Multi-Phase High-Performance Oscillators. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015: 67–94.

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 World Journal of Meta-Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew E. Visualization Of Recent Asteroid Impacts With Earth. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Cooperative Actions Result in More Economical Computer Acquisition and Improved Security at the New Orleans Computer Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ekstrom JE. Factors influencing retention in a residential treatment program. 2009.

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

Mueller B, McKINLEY JC Jr. Connecticut Death Penalty Law Is Unconstitutional, Top State Court Says. New York Times. 2015; : A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference ^[1].
This sentence cites two references ^[1,2].
This sentence cites four references ^[1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	World Journal of Meta-Analysis
ISSN (online)	2308-3840
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