How to format your references using the Algal Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Algal Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

C.L. Sawyers, The cancer biomarker problem, Nature 452 (2008) 548–552.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X. Guo, S.R.P. Silva, Engineering. High-performance transistors by design, Science 320 (2008) 618–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X.L. Deán-Ben, E. Bay, D. Razansky, Functional optoacoustic imaging of moving objects using microsecond-delay acquisition of multispectral three-dimensional tomographic data, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.H. Youn, J.-W. Jang, J.Y. Kim, J.S. Jang, S.H. Choi, J.S. Lee, Fabrication of graphene-based electrode in less than a minute through hybrid microwave annealing, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Zhao, Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

R.P. Michel, G.J. Berry, eds., Pathology of Transplantation: A Practical Diagnostic Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Majumder, R.N. Barman, B.K. Jana, P. Roy, A. Mazumdar, Application of Parity Classified Neurogenetic Models to Analyze the Impact of Climatic Uncertainty on Water Footprint, in: B.K. Jana, M. Majumder (Eds.), Impact of Climate Change on Natural Resource Management, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 71–92.

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 Algal Research.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Tooth Be Told: Millions Of Years Of Evolutionary History Mark Those Molars, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/tooth-be-told-millions-of-years-of-evolutionary-history-mark-those-molars/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, No Child Left Behind Act: Assistance from Education Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency (Spanish Language Highlights), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.W. Necaise, Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2012.

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

[1]

A. Gates, A Showman, His Stage Life and His Unhappy End, New York Times (2017) C6.

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	Algal Research
Abbreviation	Algal Res.
ISSN (print)	2211-9264
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science