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

Goldston, D., 2009. Sending out an SOS. Nature 460, 679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, X., Yang, Y., 2014. A novel perspective on seed yield of broad bean (Vicia faba L.): differences resulting from pod characteristics. Sci. Rep. 4, 6859.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobler, P.N., Fiorillo, C.D., Schultz, W., 2005. Adaptive coding of reward value by dopamine neurons. Science 307, 1642–1645.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bochukova, E.G., Huang, N., Keogh, J., Henning, E., Purmann, C., Blaszczyk, K., Saeed, S., Hamilton-Shield, J., Clayton-Smith, J., O’Rahilly, S., Hurles, M.E., Farooqi, I.S., 2010. Large, rare chromosomal deletions associated with severe early-onset obesity. Nature 463, 666–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tjong, S.C., 2012. Polymer Composites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sutradhar, B.C. (Ed.), 2016. Advances and Challenges in Parametric and Semi-parametric Analysis for Correlated Data: Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium in Statistics, Lecture Notes in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Korthals, M., 2011. Three Main Areas of Concern, Four Trends in Genomics and Existing Deficiencies in Academic Ethics, in: Korthals, M. (Ed.), Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities, The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 59–76.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Couples Who Share Housework Equally Have More Sex, Claims Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/couples-who-share-housework-equally-have-more-sex-claims-study/ (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, 1964. Comments on NASA’s Expenditure of Appropriated Funds for Parking Spaces (No. B-155372-O.M.). 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

Wistrom, C.A., 2017. Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Binder, S., 2017. A Disaster Wrapped In Victory. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2009; Li and Yang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Yang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bochukova et al., 2010)

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