How to format your references using the Current Landscape Ecology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Landscape Ecology Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Chast F. Obituary: Pierre Potier (1934-2006). Nature. 2006;440:291.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sun J, Liu T. The age of the Taklimakan Desert. Science. 2006;312:1621.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sogo JM, Lopes M, Foiani M. Fork reversal and ssDNA accumulation at stalled replication forks owing to checkpoint defects. Science. 2002;297:599–602.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Canals M, Puig P, de Madron XD, Heussner S, Palanques A, Fabres J. Flushing submarine canyons. Nature. 2006;444:354–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH, Rahman MS. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Syrigos KN, Nutting CM, Roussos C, editors. Tumors of the Chest: Biology, Diagnosis and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hoang MP, Mihm MC. Spindle and Epithelioid Cell (Spitz) Nevus and Variants. In: Hoang MP, Mihm MC Jr, editors. Melanocytic Lesions: A Case Based Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 143–77.

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 Current Landscape Ecology Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. This Is What Would Happen If A Colossal Asteroid Hit The Sea [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-is-what-would-happen-if-a-colossal-asteroid-hit-the-sea/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges in Planning and Implementing the Transformation of the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Mar. Report No.: GAO-07-649T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Loretz N. Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Court Opens Campaign Law to Challenges. New York Times. 2006 Jan 24;A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Landscape Ecology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Landsc. Ecol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2364-494X
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