How to format your references using the Wave Motion citation style

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

[1]

C. Macilwain, Stanford accelerator takes lead in race to quantify CP violation, Nature 403 (2000) 586–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.A. Melbourne, A. Hastings, Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: fundamental limits to predictability, Science 325 (2009) 1536–1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.J. Carpenter, J.M. Erickson, F.D. Holland Jr, Migration of a Late Cretaceous fish, Nature 423 (2003) 70–74.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Kowalewski, A.P. Hoffmeister, T.K. Baumiller, R.K. Bambach, Secondary evolutionary escalation between brachiopods and enemies of other prey, Science 308 (2005) 1774–1777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.A. Hoschette, The Engineer’s Career Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Shareefdeen, A. Singh, eds., Biotechnology for Odor and Air Pollution Control, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kos, T. Leniček, The Fetal Human Testis, in: D. Ježek (Ed.), Atlas on the Human Testis: Normal Morphology and Pathology, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 55–68.

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 Wave Motion.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Captive Orcas Learn To Speak Dolphin, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Williams, The lexicographic treatment of color terms, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2014.

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

[1]

J. Williams, Next Time, Maybe Don’t Use Airbnb, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	Wave Motion
Abbreviation	Wave Motion
ISSN (print)	0165-2125
Scope	General Physics and Astronomy