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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin 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	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

Forrest LR. 2013. Structural biology. (Pseudo-)symmetrical transport. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 399–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holm EA, Foiles SM. 2010. How grain growth stops: a mechanism for grain-growth stagnation in pure materials. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1138–1141.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker WC, Weber T, Chapman ER. 2004. Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304: 435–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li W, Kuai L, Chen L, Geng B. 2013. “Re-growth etching” to large-sized porous gold nanostructures. Scientific reports 3: 2377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law H. 2013. The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

2008. Sensitization of Cancer Cells for Chemo/Immuno/Radio-therapy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu Z, Ruan J. 2012. Early Childhood English Education in China. In: J Ruan and CB Leung, editor. Perspectives on Teaching and Learning English Literacy in China Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 51–65.

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 Bulletin of Marine Science.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/40-dead-tiger-cubs-have-been-found-thai-tiger-temples-freezer/

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. 2012. IT Supply Chain: Additional Efforts Needed by National Security-Related Agencies to Address Risks. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Horton CR. 2013. Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector. Capella 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

Greenhouse L. 2006. Justices Curb States’ Immunity From Suit. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forrest 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Holm and Foiles 2010, Forrest 2013).

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

Two authors: (Holm and Foiles 2010)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Marine Science
Abbreviation	Bull. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0007-4977
ISSN (online)	1553-6955
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography