How to format your references using the Western Pacific Surveillance and Response citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Western Pacific Surveillance and Response. 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

Brown RH Jr. Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead. Science. 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1169–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catlow R, Fisher A. Marshall Stoneham (1940-2011). Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Teng FZ, Dauphas N, Helz RT. Iron isotope fractionation during magmatic differentiation in Kilauea Iki lava lake. Science. 2008 Jun 20;320(5883):1620–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song W, Kwon SY, Myung S, Jung MW, Kim SJ, Min BK, et al. High-mobility ambipolar ZnO-graphene hybrid thin film transistors. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 11;4:4064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Faticoni TG. The Mathematics of Infinity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Sehoole C, Knight J, editors. Internationalisation of African Higher Education: Towards Achieving the MDGs. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013. XII, 190 p. (Global Perspectives on Higher Education).

A chapter in an edited book

Yanovsky V, Rumble SM, Brudno M. Read Mapping Algorithms for Single Molecule Sequencing Data. In: Crandall KA, Lagergren J, editors. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 8th International Workshop, WABI 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 15-19, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 38–49. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Western Pacific Surveillance and Response.

Blog post

Andrew E. Trouble strikes China’s lunar rover, Yutu. IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office. Federal Retirement Processing: OPM Is Pursuing Incremental Information Technology Improvements after Canceling a Modernization Plagued by Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 May. Report No.: GAO-13-580T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2009.

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

Kelly C. This Affordable Housing Would Stay Affordable. New York Times. 2007 Apr 15;WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Abbreviation	Western Pac. Surveill. Response J.
ISSN (print)	2094-7321
ISSN (online)	2094-7313
Scope	General Medicine