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

Südhof TC. 2015. Reproducibility: Experimental mismatch in neural circuits. Nature 528: 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan Y, Luo Z-Q. 2011. Legionella pneumophila SidD is a deAMPylase that modifies Rab1. Nature 475: 506–509.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choe J, Kelker MS, Wilson IA. 2005. Crystal structure of human toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) ectodomain. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 581–585.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang XB, Yang X, Nicholas JB, Wang LS. 2001. Bulk-like features in the photoemission spectra of hydrated doubly charged anion clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1322–1325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burger M, Graeber B, Schindlmayr G. 2014. Managing Energy Risk. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

2015. Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 12th International Workshop, WAW 2015, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, December 10-11, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Karpov EG, Grankin MV. 2012. Atomic Scale Monte-Carlo Studies of Entropic Elasticity Properties of Polymer Chain Molecules. In: B Sun, editor. Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 147–163.

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

Hamilton K. 2017. [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/you-too-could-be-multilingual-its-just-about-unlocking-the-skills-inside/

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. 1987. Information System Security in Federal Civilian Agencies. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Denno D. 2010. Multiple paths to first grade: A comparison of child, parent, and early education variables associated with multiple year kindergarten experiences. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kishkovsky S. 2011. Choir Festival to Celebrate St. Basil’s 450 Years. New York Times TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Südhof 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Tan and Luo 2011, Südhof 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tan and Luo 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2001)

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