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

Arendt, A.A. 2011. Geophysics. Assessing the status of Alaska’s glaciers. Science. 332:1044–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

von Storch, H. & Stehr, N. 2000. Climate change in perspective. Nature. 405:615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sainsbury, S., Niesser, J. & Cramer, P. 2013. Structure and function of the initially transcribing RNA polymerase II-TFIIB complex. Nature. 493:437–40.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sijacic, P., Wang, X., Skirpan, A.L., Wang, Y., Dowd, P.E., McCubbin, A.G., Huang, S. et al. 2004. Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. Nature. 429:302–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akivis, M.A. & Goldberg, V.V. 1996. Conformal Differential Geometry and Its Generalizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nautiyal, S., Schaldach, R., Raju, K.V., Kaechele, H., Pritchard, B. & Rao, K.S. (Eds.) 2016. Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building: Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham. X, 639 p. 150 illus., 139 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Abadi, M.H.B. & Oskoei, M.A. 2015. Effects of Mirrors in Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Omnidirectional Vision. In Liu, H., Kubota, N., Zhu, X., Dillmann, R. & Zhou, D. [Eds.] Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part III. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–48.

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

Taub, B. 2016. Learning Music Gives Kids Extra Brain Connections. (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 1989. ICBM Modernization: Rail Garrison Production Decision and Launch Car Acquisition Should Be Delayed. No. NSIAD-90-19.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia, M.J. 2009. Teacher knowledge of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and effective classroom interventions. 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

Kelly, D.A. 2006. Calling From Abroad at Reasonable Rates. New York Times. 56.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arendt 2011).
This sentence cites two references (von Storch and Stehr 2000, Arendt 2011).

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

Two authors: (von Storch and Stehr 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sijacic 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