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. Tippmann S. Programming tools: Adventures with R. Nature. 2015;517:109–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Willimsky G, Blankenstein T. Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance. Nature. 2005;437:141–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Adams MD, McVey M, Sekelsky JJ. Drosophila BLM in double-strand break repair by synthesis-dependent strand annealing. Science. 2003;299:265–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Marichal C, Van Swygenhoven H, Van Petegem S, Borca C. {110} Slip with {112} slip traces in bcc Tungsten. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schütz H, Wiedemann PM, Hennings W, Mertens J, Clauberg M. Comparative Risk Assessment. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

1. Kučera L, Kučera A, editors. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007: 32nd International Symposium, MFCS 2007 Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Missbach M, Stelzel J, Gardiner C, Anderson G, Tempes M. Change and Configuration Management. In: Stelzel J, Gardiner C, Anderson G, Tempes M, editors. SAP on the Cloud. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 83–100.

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. Hale T. Ants Use A “Princess Pheromone” To Identify Future Queens [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-use-a-princess-pheromone-to-identify-future-queens/

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. Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts [Reissued March 18, 2015]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Feb. Report No.: GAO-15-193.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zamudio R. From community college to 4-year institutions: Latinas’ successful completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Lyall S. Three Beginnings, Reverse Chronology and A Novel That Starts Over in Every Chapter. New York Times. 2013 Mar 22;MM22.

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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