How to format your references using the EcoSal Plus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EcoSal Plus. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stern DL. 2006. Developmental biology. Morphing into shape. Science 313:50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ralph TC, Boyd RW. 2007. PHYSICS. Better computing with photons. Science 318:1251–1252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baughman RH, Zakhidov AA, de Heer WA. 2002. Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications. Science 297:787–792.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

You JQ, Wang ZD, Zhang W, Nori F. 2014. Encoding a qubit with Majorana modes in superconducting circuits. Sci Rep 4:5535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Savaux V, Louët Y. 2014. MMSE-Based Algorithm for Joint Signal Detection, Channel and Noise Variance Estimation for OFDM Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2010. Summary of Flow Modulation and Fluid-Structure Interaction Findings: Results of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 401 at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 1997-2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kopřiva J, Žižka J. 2015. HRCT Stenvers Reformat, p. 113–156. In Žižka, J (ed.), Temporal Bone CT and MRI Anatomy: A Guide to 3D Volumetric Acquisitions. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 EcoSal Plus.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. The Sad Truth Behind Tiger And Slow Loris Selfies. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018.

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. 1979. Review of HEW Guidelines for Acquiring Automatic Data Processing Systems Under the Social Security Act. HRD-79-126. 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

Johnson DM. 2015. Prison nursery programs: Measuring society’s perceptions and support. 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

Walsh MW. 2011. Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	EcoSal Plus
Abbreviation	EcoSal Plus
ISSN (online)	2324-6200
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