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

Adams K. 2013. Genomics. Genomic clues to the ancestral flowering plant. Science. 342(6165):1456–57

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu X, Norell MA. 2004. A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture. Nature. 431(7010):838–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Noda S, Chutinan A, Imada M. 2000. Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure. Nature. 407(6804):608–10

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tyson GW, Chapman J, Hugenholtz P, Allen EE, Ram RJ, et al. 2004. Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment. Nature. 428(6978):37–43

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. 2014. Random Vibration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Volkov AG, ed. 2012. Plant Electrophysiology: Methods and Cell Electrophysiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

O’Connell DC, Kowal S. 2008. The Written. In Communicating with One Another: Toward a Psychology of Spontaneous Spoken Discourse, ed. S Kowal, pp. 1–9. New York, NY: 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

Taub B. 2015. Could Ketamine Be Used To Treat Depression? 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. 1997. Federal-Aid Highway Program: Impact of the District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act. RCED-97-162, 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

Tolley CB. 2009. The role of trust and care in the implementation of a social constructivist curriculum in physical education. 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

Billard M. 2016. The View From the Back Row. New York Times, Feb. 4, , p. D7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adams 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Adams 2013; Xu & Norell 2004).

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

Two authors: (Xu & Norell 2004)
Three or more authors: (Tyson et al. 2004)

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