How to format your references using the Coastal Engineering citation style

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

Diehl, R.A., 2005. Archaeology. Patterns of cultural primacy. Science 307, 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomita, M., Kami, K., 2012. Cancer. Systems biology, metabolomics, and cancer metabolism. Science 336, 990–991.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, K., Cho, K., Kim, S., 2013. Stable bending performance of flexible organic light-emitting diodes using IZO anodes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tan, W., Chen, L., Ji, X., Lin, H.-Q., 2014. Photonic simulation of topological superconductor edge state and zero-energy mode at a vortex. Sci. Rep. 4, 7381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simpkins, C.A., Simpkins, A.M., 2011. Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pleyer, U., 2009. Uveitis and Immunological Disorders, Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P., Tosic, V., 2006. Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-adaptation of Web Services Compositions, in: Steen, M. van, Henning, M. (Eds.), Middleware 2006: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27-December 1, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 62–80.

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 Coastal Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Antibiotic Resistance Doesn’t Just Make Bacteria Harder To Kill – It Can Actually Make Them Stronger [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Better Information Needed for Oversight and Evaluation of Selected Elementary and Secondary Education Programs (No. PAD-78-35). 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

Turpie, K.R., 2012. Enhancement of a canopy reflectance model for understanding the specular and spectral effects of an aquatic background in an inundated tidal marsh (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Shear, M.D., 2017. Ask Him Anything, Unless It’s About Trump. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diehl, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Diehl, 2005; Tomita and Kami, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tomita and Kami, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Coastal Engineering
Abbreviation	Coast. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0378-3839
Scope	Ocean Engineering Environmental Engineering