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

Aubret, F., 2013. Heart rates increase after hatching in two species of Natricine snakes. Sci. Rep. 3, 3384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lipinski, C., Hopkins, A., 2004. Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine. Nature 432, 855–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Auerbach, B.D., Osterweil, E.K., Bear, M.F., 2011. Mutations causing syndromic autism define an axis of synaptic pathophysiology. Nature 480, 63–68.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bernhardt, T.G., Wang, I.N., Struck, D.K., Young, R., 2001. A protein antibiotic in the phage Qbeta virion: diversity in lysis targets. Science 292, 2326–2329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stack, T., Ostrom, L.T., Wilhelmsen, C.A., 2016. Occupational Ergonomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hutson, J.M., 2013. The Surgical Examination of Children, 2nd ed. 2013. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Coppolino, R.N., 2016. Response DOF Selection for Mapping Experimental Normal Modes-2016 Update, in: Allen, M., Mayes, R.L., Rixen, D. (Eds.), Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–46.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Drone that Traps Mosquitoes May Prevent Epidemics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1972. Follow up Review of Automatic Data Processing Activities Jet Propulsion Laboratory (No. B-162407(6)). 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

Israel, J.M., 2013. Student Extracurricular Participation, Student Achievement, and School Perception: an Elementary School Perspective (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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., 2007. Justices’ Vote in Death Case Is Close Again, but Differing. 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 (Aubret, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Aubret, 2013; Lipinski and Hopkins, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lipinski and Hopkins, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bernhardt et al., 2001)

About the journal

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