How to format your references using the Wetlands citation style

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

Bargmann CI (2006) Comparative chemosensation from receptors to ecology. Nature 444:295–301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hutchinson JR, Garcia M (2002) Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner. Nature 415:1018–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen SB, Stephenson R, Thomsen E (2007) Dynamics of Mid-Palaeocene North Atlantic rifting linked with European intra-plate deformations. Nature 450:1071–1074.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pahnke K, Zahn R, Elderfield H, Schulz M (2003) 340,000-year centennial-scale marine record of Southern Hemisphere climatic oscillation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301:948–952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelly VA (2015) ADDICTION in the Family: What Every Counselor Needs to Know. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, USA

An edited book

Sahu PK (2015) Estimation and Inferential Statistics, 1st ed. 2015. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Gunn C (2015) Online Assessment and Learner Motivation in the Twenty-First Century. In: Koh C (ed) Motivation, Leadership and Curriculum design: Engaging the Net Generation and 21st Century Learners. Springer, Singapore, pp 53–62

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 Wetlands.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Figures Show No Mass Shootings In Australia Since Gun Control Laws Were Introduced 20 Years Ago. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/figures-show-no-mass-shootings-australia-since-gun-control-laws-introduced-20-years-ago/. 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 (1992) Motor Vehicle Safety: Key Issues Confronting the National Advanced Driving Simulator. 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

Springborn T (2017) The Importance of Teacher/Student Relationships. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Lee L (1995) The Whole Earth Is at Stake, but It’s Just a Game. New York Times 223.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bargmann 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hutchinson and Garcia 2002; Bargmann 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hutchinson and Garcia 2002)
Three or more authors: (Pahnke et al 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wetlands
Abbreviation	Wetlands (Wilmington)
ISSN (print)	0277-5212
ISSN (online)	1943-6246
Scope	General Environmental Science Ecology Environmental Chemistry