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

Di Noia, J.M., 2015. Molecular biology: Unequal opportunity during class switching. Nature 525, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware, P., Smaglik, P., 2001. Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature 409, 961–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich, M., Fletcher, M.A., Dobson, C.M., 2001. Amyloid fibrils from muscle myoglobin. Nature 410, 165–166.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martincorena, I., Fowler, J.C., Wabik, A., Lawson, A.R.J., Abascal, F., Hall, M.W.J., Cagan, A., Murai, K., Mahbubani, K., Stratton, M.R., Fitzgerald, R.C., Handford, P.A., Campbell, P.J., Saeb-Parsy, K., Jones, P.H., 2018. Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science 362, 911–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Juhnke, G.A., Granello, D.H., Granello, P.F., 2010. Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Passeron, T., Ortonne, J.-P. (Eds.), 2016. Atlas of Pigmentary Disorders. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Z., Xue, Y., Zhu, X., Li, X., Yao, H., Miura, K., 2016. Combustion Behavior of Low-Rank Coal Upgraded by Degradative Solvent Extraction, in: Yue, G., Li, S. (Eds.), Clean Coal Technology and Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Coal Combustion. Springer, Singapore, pp. 31–37.

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

Davis, J., 2015. New Medical Material Uses Snake Venom To Stem Bleeding [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-medical-material-uses-snake-venom-stop-bleeding/ (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, 1991. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Transition of Communications System to Digital Technology (No. IMTEC-91-77FS). 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

Adetunji, O.O., 2008. The Nature of Electronic States in Conducting Polymer Nano-Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Romero, S., Casey, N., 2016. Joy, Then Grief, Over Brazil Team. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Di Noia, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Di Noia, 2015; Wickware and Smaglik, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wickware and Smaglik, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Martincorena et al., 2018)

About the journal

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