How to format your references using the Annual Review of Marine Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Marine Science. 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 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

Wurthner F. 2006. Chemistry. Generating a photocurrent on the nanometer scale. Science. 314(5806):1693–94

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedrich RW, Laurent G. 2001. Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity. Science. 291(5505):889–94

A journal article with 3 authors

Vidale JE, Dodge DA, Earle PS. 2000. Slow differential rotation of the Earth’s inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering. Nature. 405(6785):445–48

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zinke J, Loveday BR, Reason CJC, Dullo W-C, Kroon D. 2014. Madagascar corals track sea surface temperature variability in the Agulhas Current core region over the past 334 years. Sci. Rep. 4:4393

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feyel P. 2013. Loop-Shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Butler MG, Lee PDK, Whitman BY, eds. 2006. Management of Prader-Willi Syndrome. New York, NY: Springer. Third Edition ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamaguchi M, Miura T. 2014. Incremental Patterns in Text Search. In Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013, eds. F Zavoral, JJ Jung, C Badica, pp. 23–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Marine Science.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2017. At What Age Is It Easiest To Learn A Second Language? IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1999. Customs Service Modernization: Serious Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected. AIMD-99-41, 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

Goodison SE. 2014. The undiscovered country: Homicide, dynamic change, and deterrence in Washington, D.C. Neighborhoods, 1998-2006. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Maryland, College Park

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

Hollander S. 2000. Stevenson Also Seeking Maturity. New York Times, Aug. 30, , p. D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wurthner 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Friedrich & Laurent 2001; Wurthner 2006).

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

Two authors: (Friedrich & Laurent 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zinke et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Marine Science
Abbreviation	Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1941-1405
ISSN (online)	1941-0611
Scope	Oceanography