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

McGehee MD (2011) Applied physics. Paradigm shifts in dye-sensitized solar cells. Science 334:607–608

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellwood MDF, Foster WA (2004) Doubling the estimate of invertebrate biomass in a rainforest canopy. Nature 429:549–551

A journal article with 3 authors

Acquisti C, Kleffe J, Collins S (2007) Oxygen content of transmembrane proteins over macroevolutionary time scales. Nature 445:47–52

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bouillet P, Purton JF, Godfrey DI, et al (2002) BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes. Nature 415:922–926

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheringer M (2002) Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Cho YJ (2015) Stability of Functional Equations in Banach Algebras. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Couclelis H (2007) Misses, near-misses and surprises in forecasting the informational city. In: Miller HJ (ed) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–83

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

Hale T (2016) First-Ever Footage Of A Great White Shark Napping Caught On Camera. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-footage-of-a-great-white-shark-napping-caught-on-camera/. 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 (2015) Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Address Cybersecurity As Agency Transitions to NextGen. 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

Hey SE (2015) Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”: A look at “The Abyss of the Birds” and socio-political issues, religion and performance practice in reference to the bible and the holocaust. 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

Murphy MJO (2011) Down the Tube. New York Times BR15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGehee 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ellwood and Foster 2004; McGehee 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ellwood and Foster 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bouillet et al. 2002)

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