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

Benford G (2000) Taking control. Nature 406:462

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou J, Guo LJ (2014) Transition from a spectrum filter to a polarizer in a metallic nano-slit array. Sci Rep 4:3614

A journal article with 3 authors

Leitch DB, Sarko DK, Catania KC (2014) Brain mass and cranial nerve size in shrews and moles. Sci Rep 4:6241

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bejerano G, Pheasant M, Makunin I, et al (2004) Ultraconserved elements in the human genome. Science 304:1321–1325

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Decreusefond L, Moyal P (2012) Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Connelly R, Ivić Weiss A, Whiteley W (eds) (2014) Rigidity and Symmetry. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Yu PL, Sadler BM, Verma G, Baras JS (2016) Fingerprinting by Design: Embedding and Authentication. In: Wang C, Gerdes RM, Guan Y, Kasera SK (eds) Digital Fingerprinting. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–88

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) Science Facts Behind Dr Who Sonic Screwdriver Are Even More Exciting Than Fiction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/science-facts-behind-dr-who-sonic-screwdriver-are-even-more-exciting-fiction/. 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 (1982) Methodology Transfer Paper 3. 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

Koblick DC (2012) Parallel high-precision orbit propagation using the modified Picard-Chebyshev method. 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

Leland J (2017) ‘Weird Isn’t In Right Now.’ New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benford 2000; Zhou and Guo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhou and Guo 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bejerano et al. 2004)

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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