How to format your references using the World Journal of Methodology citation style

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

Chapman CR. Astronomy. Calibrating asteroid impact. Science 2013; 342: 1051–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li L, Wang Y. What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China? Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripodi M, Stepien AE, Arber S. Motor antagonism exposed by spatial segregation and timing of neurogenesis. Nature 2011; 479: 61–66.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Narayanan K, Yen SK, Dou Q, Padmanabhan P, Sudhaharan T, Ahmed S, Ying JY, Selvan ST. Mimicking cellular transport mechanism in stem cells through endosomal escape of new peptide-coated quantum dots. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen TU. Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Print M, Tan C (eds). Educating “Good” Citizens in a Globalising World for the Twenty-First Century. Rotterdam: SensePublishers

A chapter in an edited book

Lavoie C, Abdulnour G. How to Recognize a Creative SME? In: Grabot B, Vallespir B, Gomes S, Bouras A, Kiritsis D, editors. Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014: 27–33.

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 Methodology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Crack Code Viruses Like HIV And Ebola Use To Piece Themselves Together. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-crack-code-viruses-hiv-and-ebola-use-piece-themselves-together/

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. Need for More Effective Management of Transportation Data Systems. 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

Balakrishnan G. Cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing. 2017.

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

Schwartz J, Albeck-Ripka L. Flying Cowboys Keep Them Doggies Movin’ To Higher Ground. New York Times. 2017; : A12.

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 Methodology
ISSN (online)	2222-0682
Scope