How to format your references using the Estuaries and Coasts citation style

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

Laursen, Lucas. 2008. SCIENCE CAREERS: Geoscientists in High Demand in the Oil Industry. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 857–859.

A journal article with 2 authors

Young, Ry, and Jason J. Gill. 2015. MICROBIOLOGY. Phage therapy redux--What is to be done? Science (New York, N.Y.) 350: 1163–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piovia-Scott, Jonah, David A. Spiller, and Thomas W. Schoener. 2011. Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 461–463.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schedlbauer, Amber M., Milagros S. Copara, Andrew J. Watrous, and Arne D. Ekstrom. 2014. Multiple interacting brain areas underlie successful spatiotemporal memory retrieval in humans. Scientific reports 4: 6431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhao, Guangjin. 2017. Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Dusek, Karel, and Jean-François Joanny, ed. 2010. Polymer Characterization: Rheology, Laser Interferometry, Electrooptics. Vol. 230. Advances in Polymer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marsh, George Perkins. 2014. New Introduction by David Lowenthal (2003). In The Ecological Design and Planning Reader, ed. Forster O. Ndubisi, 33–50. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

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 Estuaries and Coasts.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. It May Look Pretty, But The Zika Virus Is Far From Pleasant. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 25.

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. 2012. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Measuring Progress and Addressing Potential Privacy Concerns Would Facilitate Integration into the National Airspace System [Reissued on September 18, 2012]. GAO-12-981. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clark, Debra K. 2009. Professional values: A study of education and experience in nursing students and nurses. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Koblin, John. 2017. A Show That Scares With Politics, Not Just Killer Clowns. New York Times, September 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laursen 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Laursen 2008; Young and Gill 2015).

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

Two authors: (Young and Gill 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schedlbauer et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estuaries and Coasts
Abbreviation	Estuaries Coast.
ISSN (print)	1559-2723
ISSN (online)	1559-2731
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology