How to format your references using the Deep-Sea Research Part II citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Deep-Sea Research Part II. 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

Aldiss, B., 2000. Cognitive ability and the light bulb. Nature 403, 253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephenson, N.L., Das, A.J., 2011. Comment on “Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations.” Science 334, 177; author reply 177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hristov, T.S., Miller, S.D., Friehe, C.A., 2003. Dynamical coupling of wind and ocean waves through wave-induced air flow. Nature 422, 55–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gostissa, M., Yan, C.T., Bianco, J.M., Cogné, M., Pinaud, E., Alt, F.W., 2009. Long-range oncogenic activation of Igh-c-myc translocations by the Igh 3’ regulatory region. Nature 462, 803–807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, S.F., 2005. Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nagel, W.E., Kröner, D.B., Resch, M.M. (Eds.), 2009. High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’08: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wehrmeister, M.A., Berkenbrock, G.R., 2013. Automatic Execution of Test Cases on UML Models of Embedded Systems, in: Schirner, G., Götz, M., Rettberg, A., Zanella, M.C., Rammig, F.J. (Eds.), Embedded Systems: Design, Analysis and Verification: 4th IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2013, Paderborn, Germany, June 17-19, 2013. Proceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–48.

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 Deep-Sea Research Part II.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Researchers Create “General Intelligence” Test For Wild Birds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-create-general-intelligence-test-wild-birds/ (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. Federal Oversight of State Medicaid Management Information Systems Could Be Further Improved (No. HRD-82-99). 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

Ray-Dulany, W.R., 2010. Base change for the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of GL2 (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Lee, L., 2008. A New Turn on Old Pots. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldiss, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldiss, 2000; Stephenson and Das, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stephenson and Das, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Gostissa et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Deep-Sea Research Part II
Abbreviation	Deep Sea Res. Part 2 Top. Stud. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	0967-0645
Scope	Oceanography