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

Binney JJ. 2006. Astronomy. Triangulating the galaxy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricklefs RE, Outlaw DC. 2010. A molecular clock for malaria parasites. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 226–229.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruins HJ, van der Plicht J, Mazar A. 2003. 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, pharaohs, and Hebrew kings. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 315–318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaplinsky N, Braun D, Lisch D, Hay A, Hake S, Freeling M. 2002. Biodiversity (Communications arising): maize transgene results in Mexico are artefacts. Nature 416: 601–2; discussion 600, 602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akcoglu MA, Bartha PFA, Ha DM. 2009. Analysis in Vector Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

2009. Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cárdenas OE, Romero E, Lloret A, Suriol J. 2012. Effect of Intermediate Stress on Collapse Behaviour of a Compacted Clayey Silt. In: C Mancuso, C Jommi, and F D’Onza, editor. Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications: Volume 1 Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 25–30.

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

Andrews R. 2015. [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/indonesian-volcano-erupts-electric-blue-burning-lava/

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. 1994. Space Station: Impact of the Expanded Russian Role on Funding and Research. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Walker NA. 2010. Mothers’ description of raising two children with an autism spectrum disorder: A case study. 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

McKINLEY JC Jr, Southall A, Baker AL. 2017. In the South Bronx, Lives Derailed by Guns. New York Times A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binney 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Binney 2006, Ricklefs and Outlaw 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ricklefs and Outlaw 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kaplinsky et al. 2002)

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