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

Wiechert, U. H. 2002. Geology. Earth’s early atmosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 2341–2342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, J., and B. L. Feringa. 2011. Dynamic control of chiral space in a catalytic asymmetric reaction using a molecular motor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 1429–1432.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Mée, L., J. Girardeau, and C. Monnier. 2004. Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge. Nature 432: 167–172.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Linn, M. C., H.-S. Lee, R. Tinker, F. Husic, and J. L. Chiu. 2006. Inquiry learning. Teaching and assessing knowledge integration in science. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1049–1050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bejan, A. 2016. Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mulvenna, M. D., and C. D. Nugent, ed. 2010. Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health Technologies. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hedegaard, J. S., and S. Wrbka. 2016. The Notion of Consumer Under EU Legislation and EU Case Law: Between the Poles of Legal Certainty and Flexibility. In Legal Certainty in a Contemporary Context: Private and Criminal Law Perspectives, ed. M. Fenwick and S. Wrbka, 69–88. Singapore: Springer.

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

Evans, K. 2017. New Zealand’s Yellow-Eyed Penguins Could Be Extinct In Just 25 years. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 17.

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. 2005. Credit Reporting Literacy Survey Data, an E-supplement to GAO-05-223. GAO-05-411SP. 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

Adams, A. W. 2013. Shepherd leadership of Church of God pastors and how this relates to ministerial effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Candaele, K. 1992. Mom Was in a League of Her Own. New York Times, June 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wiechert 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wiechert 2002; Wang and Feringa 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Feringa 2011)
Three or more authors: (Linn et al. 2006)

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