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

Toggweiler, J.R. 2009. Climate change. Shifting westerlies. Science. 323:1434–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tedford, R.H. & Harington, C.R. 2003. An Arctic mammal fauna from the Early Pliocene of North America. Nature. 425:388–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., Hull, C.M. & Heitman, J. 2005. Sexual reproduction between partners of the same mating type in Cryptococcus neoformans. Nature. 434:1017–21.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ye, Y., Shibata, Y., Yun, C., Ron, D. & Rapoport, T.A. 2004. A membrane protein complex mediates retro-translocation from the ER lumen into the cytosol. Nature. 429:841–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D.J. 2011. Bond Math. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dale, C. & Anderson, T. (Eds.) 2011. Advances in Systems Safety: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Southampton, UK, 8-10th February 2011. Springer, London. X, 315 p. 62 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, M., Zhang, D., Yap, P.-T. & Shen, D. 2012. Hierarchical Ensemble of Multi-level Classifiers for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. In Wang, F., Shen, D., Yan, P. & Suzuki, K. [Eds.] Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–35.

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

Carpineti, A. 2016. We Might Not Talk To Aliens For 1,500 Years. Available At: https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-might-not-talk-to-aliens-for-1500-years/ (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 1998. Transportation Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000--1999 Update. No. IAP-98-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alvandipour, M. 2017. Thermographic Image Analysis with Gabor Filters. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Greenhouse, L. 2007. Justices Agree to Hear Case Challenging Voter ID Laws. New York Times. A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toggweiler 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Tedford and Harington 2003, Toggweiler 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tedford and Harington 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ye et al. 2004)

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