How to format your references using the Journal of Phycology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Phycology. 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

Kitayama, K. 2005. Comment on “Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences.” Science. 308:633; author reply 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, J.R.A. & Kier, W.M. 2006. Biomechanics: a pneumo-hydrostatic skeleton in land crabs. Nature. 440:1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, W., Kinloch, I.A. & Windle, A.H. 2003. Nematic liquid crystallinity of multiwall carbon nanotubes. Science. 302:1363.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Parks, S.E., Cusano, D.A., Stimpert, A.K., Weinrich, M.T., Friedlaender, A.S. & Wiley, D.N. 2014. Evidence for acoustic communication among bottom foraging humpback whales. Sci. Rep. 4:7508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben-Daya, M., Kumar, U. & Murthy, D.N.P. 2016. Introduction to Maintenance Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Richter, M.M. 2013. Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XVIII, 546 p. 180 illus., 7 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Silverman, W.K. & Pina, A.A. 2008. Psychosocial Treatments for Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Youth. In Steele, R. G., Elkin, T. D. & Roberts, M. C. [Eds.] Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents: Bridging Science and Practice. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 65–82.

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 Journal of Phycology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2016. Bird Droppings Help Keep The Arctic Cool. Available At: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bird-droppings-help-keep-the-arctic-cool/ (last accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office 1989. State Department: Problems in the Diplomatic Courier System. No. NSIAD-89-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schwarcz-Besson, P. 2017. The Field in Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Leland, J. 2017. Dog Show? Whatever. New York Times. MB8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitayama 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kitayama 2005, Taylor and Kier 2006).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Kier 2006)
Three or more authors: (Parks et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Phycology
Abbreviation	J. Phycol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3646
ISSN (online)	1529-8817
Scope	Aquatic Science Plant Science