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

Gisin N (2006) Physics. New additions to the Schrödinger cat family. Science 312:63–64

A journal article with 2 authors

Ims RA, Andreassen HP (2000) Spatial synchronization of vole population dynamics by predatory birds. Nature 408:194–196

A journal article with 3 authors

Kay JN, Chu MW, Sanes JR (2012) MEGF10 and MEGF11 mediate homotypic interactions required for mosaic spacing of retinal neurons. Nature 483:465–469

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee H, Dellatore SM, Miller WM, Messersmith PB (2007) Mussel-inspired surface chemistry for multifunctional coatings. Science 318:426–430

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Connors LA, Alvarez C (2012) How Markets Really Work. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chughtai B, Te AE, Kaplan SA (eds) (2015) Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Modern Alternative to Transurethral Resection of the Prostate. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Prescher D, Bornschein J, Weber G (2014) Production of Accessible Tactile Graphics. In: Miesenberger K, Fels D, Archambault D, et al. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 26–33

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 (2014) How Many Eggs A Woman Has Reflects Her Heart Disease Risk. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-many-eggs-woman-has-reflects-her-heart-disease-risk/. 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 (1972) Examination of Selected Aspects of the Financial Management System of Goddard Space Flight Center. 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

Ghadimian V (2017) Renewable Energy Marketplace. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Koblin J, Barnes B (2017) A Lavish Emmy Campaign. 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 (Gisin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ims and Andreassen 2000; Gisin 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ims and Andreassen 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2007)

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