How to format your references using the Journal of Phycology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Phycology. 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

Wadhwa, M. 2001. Redox state of Mars’ upper mantle and crust from Eu anomalies in shergottite pyroxenes. Science. 291:1527–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sander, P.M. & Clauss, M. 2008. Paleontology. Sauropod gigantism. Science. 322:200–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bueno, J.T., Shchukina, N. & Ramos, A.A. 2004. A substantial amount of hidden magnetic energy in the quiet Sun. Nature. 430:326–9.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Christofk, H.R., Vander Heiden, M.G., Wu, N., Asara, J.M. & Cantley, L.C. 2008. Pyruvate kinase M2 is a phosphotyrosine-binding protein. Nature. 452:181–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui, J.B.-Y. 2004. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Koopman, P., Plasmeijer, R. & Swierstra, D. (Eds.) 2009. Advanced Functional Programming: 6th International School, AFP 2008, Heijen, The Netherlands, May 2008, Revised Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XVI, 331 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, B. 2012. Catawba Indians’ Adaptive Response to Colonialism. In Chacon, R. J. & Mendoza, R. G. [Eds.] The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 73–7.

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 Phycology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Magnetic Fields Can Control Heat And Sound. Available At: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/magnetic-fields-can-control-heat-and-sound/ (last accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office 1991. Land Management Systems: Extensive Cost Increases and Delays in BLM’s Major Data Base Project. No. IMTEC-91-55.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kantar, L. 2010. Clinical judgment among new nursing graduates: A multiple-case study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. 2015. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times. C28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadhwa 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Wadhwa 2001, Sander and Clauss 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sander and Clauss 2008)
Three or more authors: (Christofk et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Phycology
Abbreviation	J. Phycol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3646
ISSN (online)	1529-8817
Scope	Aquatic Science Plant Science