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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Coastal Life Medicine (JCLM). 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

[1]

Bell AT. The impact of nanoscience on heterogeneous catalysis. Science 2003;299(5613):1688–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fu H, Cohen RE. Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics. Nature 2000;403(6767):281–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mace GM, Gittleman JL, Purvis A. Preserving the tree of life. Science 2003;300(5626):1707–1709.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu G, Chen H, Sun Y, Li X, Cui P, Franchini C, et al. Tuning the vertical location of helical surface states in topological insulator heterostructures via dual-proximity effects. Sci Rep 2013;3:1233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nahar L, Sarker SD. Steroid Dimers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Clerbout N. Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Freedman I. Pharmaco-Imaging in Translational Science and Research. In: Moyer BR, Cheruvu NPS, Hu TC-C, editors. Pharmaco-Imaging in Drug and Biologics Development: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer: New York, NY, 2014: 95–112.

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 Life Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K. Breeder Creates Perfect “Emoji” Snake After 8 Years Of Trying. IFLScience. 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/breeder-creates-perfect-emoji-snake-after-8-years-of-trying/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Contractors’ Independent Research and Development. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Newberry GC. Students’ experiences with simulation education. 2014.

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

[1]

Brantley B. Sing a Song of Face Creams. New York Times. 2017;:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Coastal Life Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Coast. Life Med.
ISSN (print)	2309-5288
Scope