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 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

Goodman, S., 2005. The familial balancing act. Nature 433, 552–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clarke, A., Kapustin, V., 2010. Hemispheric aerosol vertical profiles: anthropogenic impacts on optical depth and cloud nuclei. Science 329, 1488–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, J.C., Horton, J.D., Hobbs, H.H., 2011. Human fatty liver disease: old questions and new insights. Science 332, 1519–1523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weinstock, I.A., Barbuzzi, E.M., Wemple, M.W., Cowan, J.J., Reiner, R.S., Sonnen, D.M., Heintz, R.A., Bond, J.S., Hill, C.L., 2001. Equilibrating metal-oxide cluster ensembles for oxidation reactions using oxygen in water. Nature 414, 191–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zeng, K., Lou, W., Li, M., 2011. Multihop Wireless Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bessis, N., Dobre, C. (Eds.), 2014. Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Vacchi, E., Cazzola, W., Pillay, S., Combemale, B., 2013. Variability Support in Domain-Specific Language Development, in: Erwig, M., Paige, R.F., Wyk, E.V. (Eds.), Software Language Engineering: 6th International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 26-28, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 76–95.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Scientists Discover A New Intriguing Fast Radio Burst [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-discover-a-new-intriguing-fast-radio-burst/ (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, 1988. ADP Systems: FDA Can Reduce Development Risks for Its Import Information System (No. IMTEC-88-42). 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

Shan, J., 2014. A Theoretical Investigation of Radial Lateral Wells with Shockwave Completion in Shale Gas Reservoirs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Powell, K., 2017. He’s Got It From Here. New York Times M296.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke and Kapustin, 2010; Goodman, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Clarke and Kapustin, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Weinstock et al., 2001)

About the journal

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