How to format your references using the World Journal of Methodology citation style

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

West R. Chemistry. Japan bats a triple. Science 2004; 305: 1724–1725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Genda H, Abe Y. Enhanced atmospheric loss on protoplanets at the giant impact phase in the presence of oceans. Nature 2005; 433: 842–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann D, Hufnagel L, Geisel T. The scaling laws of human travel. Nature 2006; 439: 462–465.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Dubonos SV, Hill EW, Grigorieva IV. Subatomic movements of a domain wall in the Peierls potential. Nature 2003; 426: 812–816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezg N, Dellagi S, Khatab A. Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Pohl K. Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles, and Techniques. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Altizer TJJ. To D. G. Leahy (January 17, 1997). In: Grimshaw M, editor. This Silence Must Now Speak: Letters of Thomas J. J. Altizer, 1995–2015. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016: 15–17.

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 Methodology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Awesome X-Ray Images Show A Python Breaking Down An Alligator. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/python-digesting-alligator/

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. FAA Budget: Agency Faces Key Management Challenges on Major Issues. 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

Keohane MF. Virtual team communication: Perceptions and experiences influencing the use of videoconferencing technology. 2010.

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

Wagner J. Houston’s Bregman Works on Hitting, Fielding and Spanish. New York Times. 2017; : SP2.

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 Methodology
ISSN (online)	2222-0682
Scope