How to format your references using the Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 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

Rasio, F.A., 2011. Astronomy. A black widow’s best friend? Science 333, 1712–1713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mastrandrea, M.D., Schneider, S.H., 2004. Probabilistic integrated assessment of “dangerous” climate change. Science 304, 571–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J.L.C., Everitt, B.J., Thomas, K.L., 2004. Independent cellular processes for hippocampal memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Science 304, 839–843.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Malek, N.P., Sundberg, H., McGrew, S., Nakayama, K., Kyriakides, T.R., Roberts, J.M., Kyriakidis, T.R., 2001. A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase. Nature 413, 323–327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J.J., Brantley, W., Phillips, P.P., 2011. Project Management ROI. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhang, B., Fulmer, G.W., Liu, X., Hu, W., Peng, S., Wei, B. (Eds.), 2014. International Conference on Science Education 2012 Proceedings: Science Education: Policies and Social Responsibilities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Katz, M., Shaikovsky, I., 2011. Rich Input and Select Components, in: Shaikovsky, I. (Ed.), Practical RichFaces. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 95–132.

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 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Stem Cells From Pregnant Women Could Reverse Aging In Bones [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-from-pregnant-women-could-reverse-aging-in-bones/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1983. NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California (No. AFMD-83-40). 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

Nistal França, F.J., 2017. Nondestructive Evaluation of Southern Pine Lumber (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Surico, J., 2017. Model Pet? Try a Rat. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rasio, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mastrandrea and Schneider, 2004; Rasio, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mastrandrea and Schneider, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Malek et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Abbreviation	Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci.
ISSN (print)	0272-7714
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography