How to format your references using the Continental Shelf Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Continental Shelf Research. 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

Triendl, R., 2001. Staffing shortage threatens Japan’s structural genomics. Nature 410, 724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Diaz, R.J., Rosenberg, R., 2008. Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science 321, 926–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Randau, L., Schröder, I., Söll, D., 2008. Life without RNase P. Nature 453, 120–123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Price, T.A.R., Hodgson, D.J., Lewis, Z., Hurst, G.D.D., Wedell, N., 2008. Selfish genetic elements promote polyandry in a fly. Science 322, 1241–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norris, L., 2014. Transplant Administration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Crimi, A., Menze, B., Maier, O., Reyes, M., Winzeck, S., Handels, H. (Eds.), 2016. Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Second International Workshop, BrainLes 2016, with the Challenges on BRATS, ISLES and mTOP 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kalogeras, N., Pennings, J.M.E., Dijk, G. van, van der Lans, I.A., 2007. The Structure of Marketing Cooperatives, in: Nilsson, J. (Ed.), Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 73–92.

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 Continental Shelf Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Why Was A Child’s “5+5+5=15” Answer Marked As Incorrect? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/teacher-marks-child-s-55515-answer-incorrect/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1982. Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs (No. MASAD-82-33). 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

Pham, A.T., 2012. Factorization of polynomials modulo a prime (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Casey, N., 2016. Rebel Group in Colombia Enters Talks. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008; Triendl, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Price et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Continental Shelf Research
Abbreviation	Cont. Shelf Res.
ISSN (print)	0278-4343
Scope	Aquatic Science Geology Oceanography