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. Hoag H. Coal-fired power plant to bury issue of emissions. Nature. 2003;422:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Boss PK, Thomas MR. Association of dwarfism and floral induction with a grape “green revolution” mutation. Nature. 2002;416:847–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sousa-Nunes R, Yee LL, Gould AP. Fat cells reactivate quiescent neuroblasts via TOR and glial insulin relays in Drosophila. Nature. 2011;471:508–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhu J-X, Wen X-D, Haraldsen JT, He M, Panagopoulos C, Chia EEM. Induced ferromagnetism at BiFeO3/YBa2Cu3O7 interfaces. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Free ML. CBT and Christianity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. McGeoch CC, editor. Experimental Algorithms: 7th International Workshop, WEA 2008 Provincetown, MA, USA, May 30-June 1, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dufourcq A. Bachelard and Merleau-Ponty: Is a Cosmic Flesh of the World Feigned or Disclosed by Imagination? In: Tymieniecka A-T, Trutty-Coohill P, editors. The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 43–58.

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. Luntz S. Rising Temperatures Lead To A Higher Proportion Of Girls Being Born Than Boys. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. High Speed Passenger Rail: Effectively Using Recovery Act Funds for High Speed Rail Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Jun. Report No.: GAO-09-786T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bell J. A phenomenological study of African American GS-13 to GS-15 managers within the federal government [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Dwyer J. ’60s TV, Taxes and a Taste of Trump. New York Times. 2016 Oct 5;A16.

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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