How to format your references using the Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 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

Ferrari, R., 2014. Oceanography: What goes down must come up. Nature 513, 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tanaka, A., Sakaguchi, S., 2015. Immunology. Early life Aire. Science 348, 506–507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kobayashi, K., Yoshimura, J., Hasegawa, E., 2013. Coexistence of sexual individuals and genetically isolated asexual counterparts in a thrips. Sci. Rep. 3, 3286.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rubin, C.-J., Zody, M.C., Eriksson, J., Meadows, J.R.S., Sherwood, E., Webster, M.T., Jiang, L., Ingman, M., Sharpe, T., Ka, S., Hallböök, F., Besnier, F., Carlborg, O., Bed’hom, B., Tixier-Boichard, M., Jensen, P., Siegel, P., Lindblad-Toh, K., Andersson, L., 2010. Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication. Nature 464, 587–591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver, H., Cawson, P., Gorin, S., Walker, S., 2009. Safeguarding Children. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Betten, A., 2006. Error-Correcting Linear Codes: Classification by Isometry and Applications, Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, W., Lu, P., Sun, X., Tang, B., Wang, Y., Zhu, Z.A., 2011. Optimal Pricing in Social Networks with Incomplete Information, in: Chen, N., Elkind, E., Koutsoupias, E. (Eds.), Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–60.

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 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. An Electric Wind Has Stripped Venus Of Its Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-electric-wind-has-stripped-venus-of-its-oceans/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Transportation Infrastructure: Flexibility in Federal-Aid Funding Essential to Highway Program Restructuring (No. T-RCED-91-4). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Young, A.J., 2017. An Examination of Cultures of Innovation within Esoteric Technology Provider: A Look into Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. In Puerto Rico, Talks Resume Between Utility and Creditors. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferrari, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ferrari, 2014; Tanaka and Sakaguchi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tanaka and Sakaguchi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Rubin et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Abbreviation	Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci.
ISSN (print)	0272-7714
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography