How to format your references using the Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Gifford DK (2001) Blazing pathways through genetic mountains. Science 293:2049–2051

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann HM, Mukhopadhyay S (2009) Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle. Nature 459:560–563

A journal article with 3 authors

London AJ, Kimmelman J, Carlisle B (2012) Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials. Science 336:544–545

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nguyen T, Sutton AD, Brynda M, et al (2005) Synthesis of a stable compound with fivefold bonding between two chromium(I) centers. Science 310:844–847

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells R (2004) Global Credit Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Takeda H, Qu Y, Mizoguchi R, Kitamura Y (eds) (2013) Semantic Technology: Second Joint International Conference, JIST 2012, Nara, Japan, December 2-4, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hillairet M (2014) Topics in the Mathematical Theory of Interactions of Incompressible Viscous Fluid with Rigid Bodies. In: Bodnár T, Galdi GP, Nečasová Š (eds) Fluid-Structure Interaction and Biomedical Applications. Springer, Basel, pp 257–320

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 Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Medications Pregnant Women Should Take, Avoid, And Think About. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medications-pregnant-women-should-take-avoid-and-think-about/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Electronic Surveillance. 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

Mills Campbell D (2017) Exploratory Inquiry: Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Reduce Resource Dependence. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: No Choosing Alphabets. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gifford 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gifford 2001; Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nguyen et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aegean Review of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law
ISSN (print)	1864-9610
ISSN (online)	1864-9629
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