How to format your references using the Wetlands Ecology and Management citation style

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

Kristoufek L (2013) BitCoin meets Google Trends and Wikipedia: quantifying the relationship between phenomena of the Internet era. Sci Rep 3:3415

A journal article with 2 authors

Waltz D, Buchanan BG (2009) Computer science. Automating science. Science 324:43–44

A journal article with 3 authors

Polleux F, Morrow T, Ghosh A (2000) Semaphorin 3A is a chemoattractant for cortical apical dendrites. Nature 404:567–573

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yamane Y, Hemmatiyan S, Ieda J, et al (2014) Spinmotive force due to motion of magnetic bubble arrays driven by magnetic field gradient. Sci Rep 4:6901

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McAulay AD (2011) Military Laser Technology for Defense. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Henderson BA (ed) (2016) Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jaworski W (2016) Hylomorphism: Emergent Properties without Emergentism. In: García-Valdecasas M, Murillo JI, Barrett NF (eds) Biology and Subjectivity: Philosophical Contributions to Non-reductive Neuroscience. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–61

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 Ecology and Management.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Google Wants To Run On 100% Renewable Energy By 2017. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Special Education: Federal Actions Can Assist States in Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Youth. 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

Aquino-Centeno S (2009) Contesting social memories and identities in the Zapotec Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Saslow L (2005) At Museum Shops, Unusual Selections. New York Times 14LI12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kristoufek 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Waltz and Buchanan 2009; Kristoufek 2013).

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

Two authors: (Waltz and Buchanan 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yamane et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wetlands Ecology and Management
Abbreviation	Wetl. Ecol. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0923-4861
ISSN (online)	1572-9834
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law