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]

Ravussin E. Physiology. A NEAT way to control weight? Science 2005;307(5709):530–531.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vyas VS, Lotsch BV. Materials chemistry: Organic polymers form fuel from water. Nature 2015;521(7550):41–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bick AG, Calvo SE, Mootha VK. Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Science 2012;336(6083):886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Graves AR, Curran PK, Smith CL, Mindell JA. The Cl-/H+ antiporter ClC-7 is the primary chloride permeation pathway in lysosomes. Nature 2008;453(7196):788–792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hopkins BR. Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Fojo T (ed.). The Role of Microtubules in Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Oncology. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hitch JD. Considerations on the Transnationality of International Commercial Arbitration Awards in the Context of the Demand for Legal Certainty. In: Fenwick M, Wrbka S, editors. Legal Certainty in a Contemporary Context: Private and Criminal Law Perspectives. Springer: Singapore, 2016: 61–67.

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 E. Starving Cancer Cells Of Sugar Could Be The Key To Future Treatment. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/starving-cancer-cells-sugar-could-be-key-future-treatment/ (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. Basis Used by the Office of Education for Classifying Contracts as Either Competitive or Noncompetitive. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shaker M. Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver. 2015.

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. Football’s Absolute Power Corrupts Colleges Absolutely. New York Times. 2011;:SP10.

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

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