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

Gottfried, K., 2000. Sowing nuclear misconceptions. Nature 403, 131–133.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Doorn, G.S., Kirkpatrick, M., 2007. Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict. Nature 449, 909–912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov, S.Y., Lutovinov, A.A., Sunyaev, R.A., 2004. An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature 430, 646–648.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Das, C., Lucia, M.S., Hansen, K.C., Tyler, J.K., 2009. CBP/p300-mediated acetylation of histone H3 on lysine 56. Nature 459, 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahalos, J.N., 2006. Orthogonal Methods for Array Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (Eds.), 2012. Information Systems, Technology and Management: 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Khoury, R., Harder, D.W., 2016. Taylor Series, in: Harder, D.W. (Ed.), Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 67–75.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Don’t Miss The “Blood Moon” Eclipse Later This Month [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-blood-moon-isnt-going-destroy-earth-later-month/ (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, 1974. Need for a National Weather Modification Reseach Program (No. B-133202). 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

Tripathi, R.B., 2008. Oligodendrogensis Following Experimental Spinal Cord Injury (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Brantley, B., 2016. Election Night, With a Play in Real Time. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gottfried, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gottfried, 2000; van Doorn and Kirkpatrick, 2007).

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

Two authors: (van Doorn and Kirkpatrick, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Das et al., 2009)

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