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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stirling CH (2012) Geochemistry. Keeping time with Earth’s heaviest element. Science 335:1585–1586

A journal article with 2 authors

Calais E, Stein S (2009) Time-variable deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone. Science 323:1442

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitkaliyeva A, Chen D, Shao L (2013) Phonon transport assisted by inter-tube carbon displacements in carbon nanotube mats. Sci Rep 3:2774

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Muijres FT, Johansson LC, Barfield R, et al (2008) Leading-edge vortex improves lift in slow-flying bats. Science 319:1250–1253

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman MT, Biegelman DR (2010) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sipes JL (2013) Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC

A chapter in an edited book

Iwasokun GB, Akinyokun OC, Angaye CO (2014) Spatial Relation Approach to Fingerprint Matching. In: Chen L, Kapoor S, Bhatia R (eds) Intelligent Systems for Science and Information: Extended and Selected Results from the Science and Information Conference 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–110

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

Taub B (2016) Transparent Brains Illuminate The Neuronal Roots Of Pleasure And Fear. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/transparent-brains-illuminate-the-neuronal-roots-of-pleasure-and-fear/. 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 (1997) Aviation Security: Commercially Available Advanced Explosives Detection Devices. 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

Bethany MP (2014) Business continuity planning: Identifying gaps, patterns and justifications. 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

Kelly S (1999) Spring Children’s Books; Stuff and Nonsense. New York Times 723

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stirling 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Calais and Stein 2009; Stirling 2012).

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

Two authors: (Calais and Stein 2009)
Three or more authors: (Muijres et al. 2008)

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