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

Toby S (2001) The good and the bad. Nature 410:523

A journal article with 2 authors

Sczepanski JT, Joyce GF (2014) A cross-chiral RNA polymerase ribozyme. Nature 515:440–442

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang APP, Pigli YZ, Rice PA (2010) Structure of the LexA-DNA complex and implications for SOS box measurement. Nature 466:883–886

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Head JW, Chapman CR, Strom RG, et al (2011) Flood volcanism in the northern high latitudes of Mercury revealed by MESSENGER. Science 333:1853–1856

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen ZN, Chia MYW (2006) Broadband Planar Antennas. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Manton KG (2009) Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Deng X, Wang Y, Wu F, et al (2014) Implementation. In: Wang Y, Wu F, Zhang T, Li Z (eds) Integrated River Basin Management: Practice Guideline for the IO Table Compilation and CGE Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–99

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

Fang J (2015) 40,000-Year-Old Human Had Neanderthal Great-Great-Grandparent. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/40000-year-old-human-had-neanderthal-great-great-grandparent/. 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) NASA Property: Poor Lending Practices and Controls at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 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

Zanjani F (2014) Leadership and decision making of successful Iranian American. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Trudging to Suffrage, On a Swiss Schedule. New York Times C7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toby 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Toby 2001; Sczepanski and Joyce 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sczepanski and Joyce 2014)
Three or more authors: (Head et al. 2011)

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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