How to format your references using the Current Landscape Ecology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Landscape Ecology Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Bottjer DJ. Geochemistry. Life in the Early Triassic ocean. Science. 2012;338:336–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zheng J, Jia Z. Structure of the bifunctional isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase/phosphatase. Nature. 2010;465:961–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hayward RC, Saville DA, Aksay IA. Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns. Nature. 2000;404:56–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pearce JA, Leat PT, Barker PF, Millar IL. Geochemical tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic upper-mantle flow through the Drake passage. Nature. 2001;410:457–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kudnig ST, Séguin B. Veterinary Surgical Oncology. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Wang L, Jiang J, Lu J, Hong L, Liu B, editors. Web-Age Information Management: WAIM 2011 International Workshops: WGIM 2011, XMLDM 2011, SNA 2011, Wuhan, China, September 14-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stansbury RS, Robbins J, Towhidnejad M, Terwilliger B, Moallemi M, Clifford J. Modeling and Simulation for UAS Integration into the United States National Airspace System and NextGen. In: Hodicky J, editor. Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 40–59.

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 Current Landscape Ecology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What Does The World Look Like For Someone With A Bionic Eye? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-world-look-someone-bionic-eye/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Managing Technology: Best Practices Can Improve Performance and Produce Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jan. Report No.: T-AIMD-97-38.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tu KN. Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. ROBERT KELLY; Robert Kelly is a poet whose most recent collection of short fiction is “‘Doctor of Silence.’” He teaches at Bard College. LARGE, UNCONTAINABLE HEROINES. New York Times. 1989 Sep 24;73.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Landscape Ecology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Landsc. Ecol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2364-494X
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