How to format your references using the Journal of Coastal Conservation citation style

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

Hoag H (2007) Southern light. Nature 447:882

A journal article with 2 authors

Mühlenbruch B, Jochimsen MA (2013) Research policy: Only wholesale reform will bring equality. Nature 495:40–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang L, Treisman A, Pashler H (2007) Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science 317:823–825

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Day NP, Moore CE, Enright MC, et al (2001) A link between virulence and ecological abundance in natural populations of Staphylococcus aureus. Science 292:114–116

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen TU (2010) Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Pardoux E (2014) Stochastic Differential Equations, Backward SDEs, Partial Differential Equations. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cuartielles D, Göransson A, Olsson T, Stenslie S (2012) Mobile Haptic Technology Development through Artistic Exploration. In: Magnusson C, Szymczak D, Brewster S (eds) Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 7th International Conference, HAID 2012, Lund, Sweden, August 23-24, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–40

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 Coastal Conservation.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Ancient Hippo-Sized Mammal Was A Suction Feeder. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-hippo-sized-mammal-was-suction-feeder/. 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 (1975) Information on the New Community of Soul City, North Carolina. 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

Bannister RM (2017) To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kelly K, Stevenson A (2017) Doubt After Health Care Defeat Briefly Sends Stocks Tumbling. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2007; Mühlenbruch and Jochimsen 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mühlenbruch and Jochimsen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Day et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Coastal Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Coast. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1400-0350
ISSN (online)	1874-7841
Scope	Oceanography Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation