How to format your references using the Estuaries and Coasts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Estuaries and Coasts. 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 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

Adam, D. 2002. Field trials excluded from UK crop appraisal. Nature 420: 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cimpian, A., and S.-J. Leslie. 2015. WOMEN IN SCIENCE. Response to Comment on “Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales, R., T. Di Matteo, and T. Aste. 2014. Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Scientific reports 4: 4589.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hu, B., L. Wang, W.-C. Ye, and Z.-P. Yao. 2013. In vivo and real-time monitoring of secondary metabolites of living organisms by mass spectrometry. Scientific reports 3: 2104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lastovetsky, A. 2003. Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Panosso Netto, A., and L. G. G. Trigo, ed. 2015. Tourism in Latin America: Cases of Success. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kroupa, P., C. Weidner, J. Pflamm-Altenburg, I. Thies, J. Dabringhausen, M. Marks, and T. Maschberger. 2013. The Stellar and Sub-Stellar Initial Mass Function of Simple and Composite Populations. In Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 5: Galactic Structure and Stellar Populations, ed. T. D. Oswalt and G. Gilmore, 115–242. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Estuaries and Coasts.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017. Cruise Ship Destroys Part Of The Most Biodiverse Reef On Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 13.

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. 1978. Recommendation for Improving Testing of EF-111A Tactical Jamming System. PSAD-78-130. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Subbarao, S. 2015. An 8-PSK super regenerative receiver: Design and simulation. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Marx, L. 2011. Lori McCoy and Edwin Rossman Jr. New York Times, March 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2002; Cimpian and Leslie 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cimpian and Leslie 2015)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estuaries and Coasts
Abbreviation	Estuaries Coast.
ISSN (print)	1559-2723
ISSN (online)	1559-2731
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology