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

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

Roberts JW. 2010. Molecular biology. Syntheses that stay together. Science 328:436–437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oki T, Kanae S. 2006. Global hydrological cycles and world water resources. Science 313:1068–1072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marshall CB, Fletcher GL, Davies PL. 2004. Hyperactive antifreeze protein in a fish. Nature 429:153.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Knops A, Thirion B, Hubbard EM, Michel V, Dehaene S. 2009. Recruitment of an area involved in eye movements during mental arithmetic. Science 324:1583–1585.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kasper S, Montgomery S. 2013. Treatment-resistant Depression. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Larsson L-I (Ed). 2011. Cell Fusions: Regulation and Control. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XII, 436 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Mei Y, Goenezen S. 2015. Spatially Weighted Objective Function to Solve the Inverse Elasticity Problem for the Elastic Modulus. In: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: New Approaches and New Applications, B. Doyle, K. Miller, A. Wittek, and P. M. F. Nielsen, editors. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 47–58.

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 Journal of Wildlife Diseases.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. Why Do Female Butterflies Outfly Males? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-butterflies-queens-outfly-kings/. Accessed 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. Social Security Administration: Information Technology Challenges Facing the Commissioner. 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

Seger JL. 2017. The Occupy Movement: Signs of Cultural Shifts in Group Processes Shaped by Place. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Marx L. 2014. Friends, Artists and Partners. New York Times:ST25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roberts 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Oki and Kanae 2006; Roberts 2010).

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

Two authors: (Oki and Kanae 2006)
Three or more authors: (Knops et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Wildl. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0090-3558
ISSN (online)	1943-3700
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology