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

Dovidio JF (2009) Psychology. Racial bias, unspoken but heard. Science 326:1641–1642

A journal article with 2 authors

Shelke SA, Piccirilli JA (2014) Origins of life: RNA made in its own mirror image. Nature 515:347–348

A journal article with 3 authors

Conrad CP, Steinberger B, Torsvik TH (2013) Conrad et al. reply. Nature 503:E4

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Blumberg G, Littlewood P, Gozar A, et al (2002) Sliding density wave in Sr14Cu24O41 ladder compounds. Science 297:584–587

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron EN (2013) Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Salyapongse AN, Poore SO, Afifi AM, Bentz ML (eds) (2015) Extremity Replantation: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Bruining DH (2015) CT Enterography in Crohn’s Disease. In: Kozarek R, Chiorean M, Wallace M (eds) Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 69–72

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 (2014) Meet The Next Generation of Waste-Free Food Packaging. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/meet-next-generation-waste-free-food-packaging/. 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 (2012) Maritime Security: Progress and Challenges 10 Years after the Maritime Transportation Security Act. 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

Nguyen HT (2013) The ugly duckling: Juvenile delinquents in non-delinquent networks. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wagner J (2017) Baseball; Mets Face Pitching Decisions. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dovidio 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dovidio 2009; Shelke and Piccirilli 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shelke and Piccirilli 2014)
Three or more authors: (Blumberg et al. 2002)

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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