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

Paul, D., 2000. A double-edged sword. Nature 405, 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowe, M.L., Goldin-Meadow, S., 2009. Differences in early gesture explain SES disparities in child vocabulary size at school entry. Science 323, 951–953.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., 2004. Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 429, 410–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chan, H.F., Zhang, Y., Ho, Y.-P., Chiu, Y.-L., Jung, Y., Leong, K.W., 2013. Rapid formation of multicellular spheroids in double-emulsion droplets with controllable microenvironment. Sci. Rep. 3, 3462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jeong, H., 2014. Architectures for Computer Vision. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M., Gullotta, C.F., Messina, J.C. (Eds.), 2009. A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs, Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Moule, J., 2012. Working to Awaken, in: Whang, P.A. (Ed.), Rattling Chains: Exploring Social Justice in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 27–36.

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., 2017. Glacier National Park Will Soon Have No Glaciers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/glacier-national-park-will-soon-have-no-glaciers/ (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, 1980. Debarment for Violation of Davis-Bacon Act (No. B-199608). 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

Samel, C., 2014. Imagination and negotiation: Motivations for Cambodian women to marry Cambodian American men (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kleinfield, N.R., Rashbaum, W.K., 2013. Possible Clues In Fatal Chase, But No Motive. 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 (Paul, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Paul, 2000; Rowe and Goldin-Meadow, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rowe and Goldin-Meadow, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al., 2013)

About the journal

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