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]

Bynum W. Nobel success: What makes a great lab? Nature 2012;490(7418):31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Metz M, Fütterer J. Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 2002;416(6881):600–1; discussion 600, 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ambrose KV, Koppenhöfer AM, Belanger FC. Horizontal gene transfer of a bacterial insect toxin gene into the Epichloë fungal symbionts of grasses. Sci Rep 2014;4:5562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fernandez-Gonzalez A, La Spada AR, Treadaway J, Higdon JC, Harris BS, Sidman RL, et al. Purkinje cell degeneration (pcd) phenotypes caused by mutations in the axotomy-induced gene, Nna1. Science 2002;295(5561):1904–1906.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Uriev NB. Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Matysik F-M (ed.). Advances in Chemical Bioanalysis. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Solonnikov V. On Problem of Stability of Equilibrium Figures of Uniformly Rotating Viscous Incompressible Liquid. In: Bardos C, Fursikov A, editors. Instability in Models Connected with Fluid Flows II. Springer: New York, NY, 2008: 189–254.

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]

O`Callaghan J. We’ll Have To Wait A Bit Longer For This Car To Go 1,000 Miles Per Hour. IFLScience. 2017.

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. Department of Education: Opportunities to Realize Savings. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Olson CR. Population genetic structure of two abyssal grenadiers of the north Atlantic and northeastern Pacific oceans. 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. For Mets, Gloom and Doom Instead of Sunshine and Smiles. New York Times. 2010;:SP7.

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