How to format your references using the International Journal on Algae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Algae (IJA). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Arrow, H., Evolution. The Sharp End of Altruism, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 318, no. 5850, pp. 581–82, October 26, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Z. and Herbert, T. D., High-Latitude Influence on the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Climate in the Early Pleistocene Epoch, Nature, vol. 427, no. 6976, pp. 720–23, February 19, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman, J. L., Murray, F. and Stern, S., More for the Research Dollar, Nature, vol. 468, no. 7325, pp. 757–58, December 9, 2010.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Y., Sheng, G., Juranek, S., Tuschl, T. and Patel, D. J., Structure of the Guide-Strand-Containing Argonaute Silencing Complex, Nature, vol. 456, no. 7219, pp. 209–13, November 13, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ng, R., Drugs, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

Gravett, L. S., Learning Agility: The Impact on Recruitment and Retention, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, XIV, 146 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernstein, A. and Kuleshov, A., Low-Dimensional Data Representation in Data Analysis, in Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: 6th IAPR TC 3 International Workshop, ANNPR 2014, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 6-8, 2014. Proceedings, N. E. Gayar F. Schwenker and C. Suen, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 47–58, 2014.

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 International Journal on Algae.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., Dark Matter Map From Hubble’s Frontier Fields, IFLScience, March 2, 2017.

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, GAO Education Products, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HEHS-95-72R, Feb. 3, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hakes, C. J., Off -Campus Work and Its Relationship to Students’ Experiences with Faculty Using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010.

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

(nyt), S. K., World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Headscarves Banned From ID Photos, New York Times, August 3, 2002.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arrow, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Arrow, 2007; Liu et al., 2004).

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

Two authors: (Liu et al., 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal on Algae
ISSN (print)	1521-9429
ISSN (online)	1940-4328
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