How to format your references using the Wader Study citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wader Study. 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

Macilwain, C. 2011. Can Europe build a framework for success? Nature 473: 421.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacArthur, B.D. & R.O.C. Oreffo. 2005. Bridging the gap. Nature 433: 19.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falenty, A., T.C. Hansen & W.F. Kuhs. 2014. Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature 516: 231–233.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Field, J., G. Shreeves, S. Sumner & M. Casiraghi. 2000. Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp. Nature 404: 869–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa, P.J. 2017. Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Androulidakis, I. 2016. Industrial Espionage and Technical Surveillance Counter Measurers. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Y. & T. Li. 2005. Bioinformatics on Embedded Systems: A Case Study of Computational Biology Applications on VLIW Architecture. Pages 16–29 in: Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings (L. T. Yang, X. Zhou, W. Zhao, Z. Wu, Y. Zhu & M. Lin, Eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Wader Study.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Meteor-like Object Explodes Over Russia. IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018 at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteor-object-explodes-over-russia/.

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. 1973. Protest Against Award for Computer System. No. B-178302. 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

Gao, S. 2009. Characterization of the TAT cell penetrating peptide and directed evolution of new cell penetrating peptides for protein and nucleotide delivery to neuronal -like cells. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Otis, J. 2017. Falling Into Despair, and Taking Baby Steps to Get Off the Couch. New York Times: A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2011).
This sentence cites two references (MacArthur & Oreffo 2005, Macilwain 2011).

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

Two authors: (MacArthur & Oreffo 2005)
Three or more authors: (Field et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wader Study
ISSN (print)	2058-8410
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