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

Sánchez-Lavega, A., 2005. How long is the day on Saturn? Science 307, 1223–1224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemingway, J., Craig, A., 2004. Parasitology. New ways to control malaria. Science 303, 1984–1985.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blomster, J.P., Neff, H., Glascock, M.D., 2005. Olmec pottery production and export in ancient Mexico determined through elemental analysis. Science 307, 1068–1072.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, J., Lee, S.H., Huss, M., Holme, P., 2013. The network organization of cancer-associated protein complexes in human tissues. Sci. Rep. 3, 1583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Magnasco, V., 2010. Models for Bonding in Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ourselin, S., Joskowicz, L., Sabuncu, M.R., Unal, G., Wells, W. (Eds.), 2016. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2016: 19th International Conference, Athens, Greece, October 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tonso, K.L., 2016. Enacting Practices, in: Jørgensen, U., Brodersen, S. (Eds.), Engineering Professionalism: Engineering Practices in Work and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 85–103.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. Microbes: Our Tiny, Crucial Allies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/microbes-our-tiny-crucial-allies/ (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, 1984. Secondary Market Activities of the Student Loan Marketing Association (No. HRD-84-51). 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

Gomez, S., 2012. Support group for caregivers coping with their child diagnosed with autism: A grant proposal (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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2016. New York City’s Sconces. New York Times RE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Lavega, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hemingway and Craig, 2004; Sánchez-Lavega, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hemingway and Craig, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2013)

About the journal

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

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