How to format your references using the Journal of Great Lakes Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Great Lakes Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Chatterjee, R., 2006. 2006 Visualization Challenge winners. Science 313, 1730–1735.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik, P., Smith, A., 2002. A route to flexible working. Nature 415, 4–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Putnam, C.D., Hayes, T.K., Kolodner, R.D., 2009. Specific pathways prevent duplication-mediated genome rearrangements. Nature 460, 984–989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peyser, L.A., Vinson, A.E., Bartko, A.P., Dickson, R.M., 2001. Photoactivated fluorescence from individual silver nanoclusters. Science 291, 103–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frueh, B.C., Grubaugh, A.L., Elhai, J.D., Ford, J.D., 2012. Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Grasser, T., Selberherr, S. (Eds.), 2007. Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices 2007: SISPAD 2007. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Lenci, S., Rega, G., 2005. Bifurcation and Chaos in Mechanical Applications: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Their Control, in: Rega, G., Vestroni, F. (Eds.), IUTAM Symposium on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems and Processes in Mechanics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium Held in Rome, Italy, 8–13 June 2003, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–57.

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 Great Lakes Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Gray Wolf Pack Spotted In California For The First Time In 90 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/after-90-years-california-finally-has-gray-wolf-pack/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Competition: Issues on Establishing and Using Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (No. NSIAD-88-22). 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

Child, R.J., 2013. The evolution of BARREN INFLORESCENCE1 and related AUX/IAA genes in angiosperms (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Silver-Greenberg, J., Corkery, M., 2017. The Used Car Was Repossessed, But the Lender Is Still Collecting. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chatterjee, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chatterjee, 2006; Smaglik and Smith, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Smaglik and Smith, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Peyser et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Great Lakes Research
Abbreviation	J. Great Lakes Res.
ISSN (print)	0380-1330
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology