How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Phycology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Phycology. 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

Dance A (2015) Micromanagement with light. Nature 528:291–294

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurita R, Tanaka H (2004) Critical-like phenomena associated with liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Science 306:845–848

A journal article with 3 authors

Deroche-Gamonet V, Belin D, Piazza PV (2004) Evidence for addiction-like behavior in the rat. Science 305:1014–1017

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gavrilović TV, Jovanović DJ, Lojpur V, Dramićanin MD (2014) Multifunctional Eu3+- and Er3+/Yb3+-doped GdVO4 nanoparticles synthesized by reverse micelle method. Sci Rep 4:4209

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fencott C, Lockyer M, Clay J, Massey P (2012) Game Invaders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bichindaritz I, Montani S (eds) (2010) Case-Based Reasoning. Research and Development: 18th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2010, Alessandria, Italy, July 19-22, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ishiguro H (2013) Biological Fluctuation “Yuragi” as the Principle of Bio-inspired Robots. In: Chella A, Pirrone R, Sorbello R, Jóhannsdóttir KR (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012: Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–29

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 Journal of Applied Phycology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Forty-Hour Week Is An Hour Too Long For Your Health. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1992) The United States in Europe: Staying the Course to Win the Peace. 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

Gray JL (2014) Overcoming the threat of racial stereotyping in the workplace. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Vecsey G (2015) A New York Icon Who Shone Just Outside the Bright Lights. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dance 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kurita and Tanaka 2004; Dance 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kurita and Tanaka 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gavrilović et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Phycology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Phycol.
ISSN (print)	0921-8971
ISSN (online)	1573-5176
Scope	Aquatic Science Plant Science