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

Lamacraft A. 2015. Physics. New SQUID on the Bloch. Science. 347(6219):232–33

A journal article with 2 authors

Yacubova E, Komuro H. 2002. Stage-specific control of neuronal migration by somatostatin. Nature. 415(6867):77–81

A journal article with 3 authors

Pohl MED, Pope KO, von Nagy C. 2002. Olmec origins of Mesoamerican writing. Science. 298(5600):1984–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lim MY, Rho M, Song Y-M, Lee K, Sung J, Ko G. 2014. Stability of gut enterotypes in Korean monozygotic twins and their association with biomarkers and diet. Sci. Rep. 4:7348

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halstead P. 2014. Two Oxen Ahead. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bezdek K, Deza A, Ye Y, eds. 2013. Discrete Geometry and Optimization, Vol. 69. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Cho H, Ishida T, Inaba R, Takasaki T, Mori Y. 2007. Pictogram Retrieval Based on Collective Semantics. In Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part III, ed. JA Jacko, pp. 31–39. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 E. 2015. Awesome Video Shows A Soyuz Launching And Docking To The International Space Station. 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. 1988. Immigration Service: INS’ Technology Selection Process Is Weak, Informal, and Inconsistently Applied. PEMD-88-16, 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

Hong HJ. 2017. Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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. 2016. Indians’ Kluber Emerges as a Postseason Power. New York Times, Oct. 31, , p. D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lamacraft 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lamacraft 2015; Yacubova & Komuro 2002).

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

Two authors: (Yacubova & Komuro 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lim 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