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]

Johnstone RA. The evolution of inaccurate mimics. Nature 2002;418(6897):524–526.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shang Y, Brown M. Molecular determinants for the tissue specificity of SERMs. Science 2002;295(5564):2465–2468.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Milinski M, Semmann D, Krambeck H-J. Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’. Nature 2002;415(6870):424–426.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aizenberg J, Muller DA, Grazul JL, Hamann DR. Direct fabrication of large micropatterned single crystals. Science 2003;299(5610):1205–1208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chiasson AD. Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Lazakidou A (ed.). Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine. 1st ed. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Krzyścin JW, Borkowski J, Głowacka A, Jarosławski J, Podgórski J, Pietruczuk A, et al. Half Century of the Ozone Observations at the Central Geophysical Observatory, IGF PAS, Belsk, Poland. In: Bialik R, Majdański M, Moskalik M, editors. Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics: 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014: 85–107.

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]

Andrew D. Will Samsung Reveal The First Foldable Smartphone In 2016? IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-samsung-be-revealing-first-foldable-smartphone-2016/ (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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Potential Financial Issues in the Event That Amtrak Undergoes Liquidation. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wick HF. Applying Natural Horn Technique to Modern Valved Horn Performance Practice. 2001.

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]

Davis JH, Rosenberg M. Even Defining Victory in Afghanistan Is Hard. New York Times. 2017;:A7.

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