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

Carroll, S.B., 2001. The big picture. Nature 409, 669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miklius, A., Cervelli, P., 2003. Vulcanology: Interaction between Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Nature 421, 229.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumar, P., Narayan, R., Johnson, J.L., 2008. Properties of gamma-ray burst progenitor stars. Science 321, 376–379.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schwenk, J., Metz, M., Zolles, G., Turecek, R., Fritzius, T., Bildl, W., Tarusawa, E., Kulik, A., Unger, A., Ivankova, K., Seddik, R., Tiao, J.Y., Rajalu, M., Trojanova, J., Rohde, V., Gassmann, M., Schulte, U., Fakler, B., Bettler, B., 2010. Native GABA(B) receptors are heteromultimers with a family of auxiliary subunits. Nature 465, 231–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E.L., Medikonda, M., 2012. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Lai, C., Giuliani, A., Semeraro, G. (Eds.), 2014. Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval: DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Brook, O., Boyle, P., Flowerdew, R., 2010. Geographic Analysis of Cultural Consumption, in: Stillwell, J., Norman, P., Thomas, C., Surridge, P. (Eds.), Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes: Volume 2. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–82.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. Why Do Bluebirds Have A Better Home Turf Defence? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-bluebirds-have-a-better-home-turf-defence/ (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, 1986. Contract Pricing: Subcontractor Prices Overstated on AN/TSQ-111 Communications Contract (No. NSIAD-86-166). 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

DeVito, M.A., 2015. Facebook Family Values: A News Feed Hierarchy Of Needs (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Van Gelder, S.K.C. by L., 2005. Arts, Briefly; “Vagina Monologues” in Moscow. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carroll, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Carroll, 2001; Miklius and Cervelli, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Miklius and Cervelli, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Schwenk et al., 2010)

About the journal

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