How to format your references using the European Journal of Wildlife Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rhodes CJ (2005) Type 2 diabetes-a matter of beta-cell life and death? Science 307:380–384

A journal article with 2 authors

Barrangou R, Klaenhammer TR (2014) Microbiology: Bacteria get vaccinated. Nature 513:175–176

A journal article with 3 authors

Schummers J, Yu H, Sur M (2008) Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science 320:1638–1643

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu L, Botos I, Wang Y, et al (2008) Structural basis of toll-like receptor 3 signaling with double-stranded RNA. Science 320:379–381

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinquis A (2008) Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB®. ISTE, London, UK

An edited book

Oquendo F (2016) Software Architecture in Action: Designing and Executing Architectural Models with SysADL Grounded on the OMG SysML Standard. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ifju PG (2008) Composite Materials. In: Sharpe WN (ed) Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 97–124

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 European Journal of Wildlife Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Extremely Rare Sumatran Rhino Gives Birth At Indonesian Sanctuary. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1997) Intellectual Property: Comparison of Patent Examination Statistics for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995. 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

Baker MC (2010) A descriptive study of the view from the top: Perspectives of experts in continuing medical education. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Sisario B (2016) Dylan and the Nobel: It Gets Weirder. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rhodes 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rhodes 2005; Barrangou and Klaenhammer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Barrangou and Klaenhammer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Wildlife Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Wildl. Res.
ISSN (print)	1612-4642
ISSN (online)	1439-0574
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Nature and Landscape Conservation Animal Science and Zoology Ecology