How to format your references using the World Journal of Meta-Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Meta-Analysis. 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

Edwards PN. Beyond the ivory tower. ‘A vast machine’: standards as social technology. Science 2004; 304: 827–828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sandeep S, Ajayamohan RS. Origin of cold bias over the Arabian Sea in Climate Models. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6403.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee J, Park J, Choi C. Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4413.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Guo P, Hirano M, Herrin BR, Li J, Yu C, Sadlonova A, Cooper MD. Dual nature of the adaptive immune system in lampreys. Nature 2009; 459: 796–801.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartley J. Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Zolle I (ed). Technetium-99m Pharmaceuticals: Preparation and Quality Control in Nuclear Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Belleannée C, Sallou O, Nicolas J. Logol: Expressive Pattern Matching in Sequences. Application to Ribosomal Frameshift Modeling. In: Comin M, Käll L, Marchiori E, Ngom A, Rajapakse J, editors. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 9th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21-23, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014: 34–47.

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 World Journal of Meta-Analysis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Earth’s Meteorites Were Very Different 500 Million Years Ago. IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/earths-meteorites-were-very-different-500-million-years-ago/

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. Information Technology: Demand for the Social Security Administration’s Electronic Data Exchanges Is Growing and Presents Future Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ehsani S. Design of a Teleoperation – Based Robotic Surgical System. 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

Vecsey G. Mets Thank Troops In a Meaningful Setting. New York Times. 2011; : B11.

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	World Journal of Meta-Analysis
ISSN (online)	2308-3840
Scope