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

Petronis, Arturas. 2010. Epigenetics as a unifying principle in the aetiology of complex traits and diseases. Nature 465: 721–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann, and Howard Kunreuther. 2011. Disaster management. Redesigning flood insurance. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 408–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Jian, Jin An, and C. S. Ting. 2013. Interaction-induced localization of mobile impurities in ultracold systems. Scientific reports 3: 3147.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ogi, Hirotsugu, Masahiko Fukukshima, Hiroki Hamada, Kentaro Noi, Masahiko Hirao, Hisashi Yagi, and Yuji Goto. 2014. Ultrafast propagation of β-amyloid fibrils in oligomeric cloud. Scientific reports 4: 6960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collings, Steven. 2015. Interpretation and Application of UK GAAP. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Finetti, Bruno de, ed. 2011. Mathematical Optimiation in Economics. Vol. 38. C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Amft, Oliver, Mathias Stäger, Paul Lukowicz, and Gerhard Tröster. 2005. Analysis of Chewing Sounds for Dietary Monitoring. In UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing: 7th International Conference, UbiComp 2005, Tokyo, Japan, September 11-14, 2005. Proceedings, ed. Michael Beigl, Stephen Intille, Jun Rekimoto, and Hideyuki Tokuda, 56–72. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. 2028 To Provide Rare Opportunity For Planet Hunting Around Alpha Centauri. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 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. 1972. Administration of the Head Start Program by the Mountain Community Action Program, Inc. B-164031(1). 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

Xiao, Elizabeth A. 2017. Understanding Employment to Entrepreneurship Transitions among Women Working in the Tech Industry. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

St. John Kelly, Erin. 1994. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, January 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petronis 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Petronis 2010; Michel-Kerjan and Kunreuther 2011).

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

Two authors: (Michel-Kerjan and Kunreuther 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ogi 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