How to format your references using the International Journal on Algae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Algae (IJA). 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

Chen, X., A microRNA as a Translational Repressor of APETALA2 in Arabidopsis Flower Development, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 303, no. 5666, pp. 2022–25, March 26, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kai, T. and Spradling, A., Differentiating Germ Cells Can Revert into Functional Stem Cells in Drosophila Melanogaster Ovaries, Nature, vol. 428, no. 6982, pp. 564–69, April 1, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chan, C. M., Zhou, C. and Huang, R. H., Reconstituting Bacterial RNA Repair and Modification in Vitro, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 326, no. 5950, p. 247, October 9, 2009.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Losos, J. B., Schoener, T. W., Langerhans, R. B. and Spiller, D. A., Rapid Temporal Reversal in Predator-Driven Natural Selection, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 314, no. 5802, p. 1111, November 17, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheer, J., Failed Bridges, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2010.

An edited book

Song, D., Melucci, M., Frommholz, I., Zhang, P., Wang, L., and Arafat, S. Eds., Quantum Interaction: 5th International Symposium, QI 2011, Aberdeen, UK, June 26-29, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, IX, 229 p, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Leoni, M. de, Marrella, A. and Russo, A., Process-Aware Information Systems for Emergency Management, in Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops: International Workshops, OCS, EMSOA, SMART, and EDBPM 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, M. Cezon and Y. Wolfsthal, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 50–58, 2011.

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 International Journal on Algae.

Blog post

Fang, J., New Aluminum Battery Could Recharge Your Phone In Just One Minute, IFLScience, April 8, 2015.

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, Highway Infrastructure: Federal-State Partnership Produces Benefits and Poses Oversight Risks, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-474, Apr. 26, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Curtis, K. J., Mozambican National Anthems: Memory, Performance, and Nation-Building, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

Gustines, G. G., More Than Just Comic Books, But Plenty of Those, Too, New York Times, October 14, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chen, 2004; Kai et al., 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kai et al., 2004)
Three or more authors: (Losos et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal on Algae
ISSN (print)	1521-9429
ISSN (online)	1940-4328
Scope