How to format your references using the Coral Reefs citation style

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

Baird BN (2006) Comment on “Post-wildfire logging hinders regeneration and increases fire risk.” Science 313:615; author reply 615

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim BH, Kwon JW (2014) Plasmon-assisted radiolytic energy conversion in aqueous solutions. Sci Rep 4:5249

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiser MJ, Ribeck N, Lenski RE (2013) Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations. Science 342:1364–1367

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Katsanis N, Ansley SJ, Badano JL, Eichers ER, Lewis RA, Hoskins BE, Scambler PJ, Davidson WS, Beales PL, Lupski JR (2001) Triallelic inheritance in Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a Mendelian recessive disorder. Science 293:2256–2259

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frikha M (2013) Ad Hoc Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

(2012) Computer Applications for Modeling, Simulation, and Automobile: International Conferences, MAS and ASNT 2012, Held in Conjunction with GST 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, November 28-December 2, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jin Y, Friedrich R (2008) Large Eddy Simulation of Nozzle Jet - External Flow Interaction. In: Gülhan A. (eds) RESPACE – Key Technologies for Reusable Space Systems: Results of a Virtual Institute Programme of the German Helmholtz-Association, 2003 – 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–81

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 Coral Reefs.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Loads Of Processed Foods And Drinks Are Way Saltier Than You Think. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loads-of-processed-foods-and-drinks-are-way-saltier-than-you-think/

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 (1993) Transition From School to Work: S. 1361 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Dillon KS (2009) Social support to families of children with special needs: A grant. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

David Goodman J, Baker AL (2015) Police in Midtown Wound Suspect in Hammer Attacks. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baird 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Baird 2006; Kim and Kwon 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Kwon 2014)
Three or more authors: (Katsanis et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Coral Reefs
Abbreviation	Coral Reefs
ISSN (print)	0722-4028
ISSN (online)	1432-0975
Scope	Aquatic Science