How to format your references using the Phycological Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Phycological 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Becker, S. 2014. Rhubarb pie and science.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gebbers, R. and Adamchuk, V.I. 2010. Precision agriculture and food security.
A journal article with 3 authors
Opher, M., Stone, E.C. and Gombosi, T.I. 2007. The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Chu, K., Vojtchovský, J., McMahon, B.H., Sweet, R.M., Berendzen, J. and Schlichting, I. 2000. Structure of a ligand-binding intermediate in wild-type carbonmonoxy myoglobin.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
McCrary, S.A. 2010. Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Culp, P. 2015. Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC.
A chapter in an edited book
Chen, Y., Wang, C. and Zhang, Y. 2014. Pancreatic Cancer. In Anttila, S. and Boffetta, P. (Eds) Occupational Cancers. Springer, London, pp. 107–26.

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 Phycological Research.

Blog post
O`Callaghan, J. 2017. Mars Mission Cancer Risk May Be Double What We Thought. [updated: October 30, 2018; cited: October 30, 2018]. Available At: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-mission-cancer-risk-may-be-double-what-we-thought/.

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 1996. Amendment of FCC Rules to Deregulate the Equipment Authorization Requirements for Digital Devices. No. OGC-96-21.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Creed, C.K. 2017. Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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
Chapman, M.M. 2013. Former Mayor of Detroit Guilty in Corruption Case.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gebbers & Adamchuk 2010; Becker 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Gebbers & Adamchuk 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Chu et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titlePhycological Research
AbbreviationPhycological Res.
ISSN (print)1322-0829
ISSN (online)1440-1835
ScopeEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Physiology

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