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

van Woesik, R., 2004. Comment on “Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires.” Science 303, 1297; author reply 1297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krupovic, M., Koonin, E.V., 2014. Evolution of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses of the Bidnaviridae family from genes of four other groups of widely different viruses. Sci. Rep. 4, 5347.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qiu, X.H., Nazin, G.V., Ho, W., 2003. Vibrationally resolved fluorescence excited with submolecular precision. Science 299, 542–546.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Edgar, K.M., Wilson, P.A., Sexton, P.F., Suganuma, Y., 2007. No extreme bipolar glaciation during the main Eocene calcite compensation shift. Nature 448, 908–911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akers, R.M., 2016. Lactation and the Mammary Gland. Blackwell Publishing Company, Ames, Iowa.

An edited book

Atanelov, L. (levan) (Ed.), 2016. Resident’s Handbook of Medical Quality and Safety. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gilmore, J., Howard, P.N., 2014. Digital Media and the 2010 National Elections in Brazil, in: Grofman, B., Trechsel, A.H., Franklin, M. (Eds.), The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements, Studies in Public Choice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–55.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Does Drinking Wine Seriously Engage Your Brain More Than A Math Problem? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/is-wine-tasting-really-more-engaging-than-solving-a-maths-problem/ (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, 2004. Coast Guard Programs: Relationship between Resources Used and Results Achieved Needs to Be Clearer (No. GAO-04-432). 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

Krishna, S., 2017. Pediatric Pal (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

Saslow, L., 2007. As Museum Considers Uses for Land, Gardeners Ponder Their Fate. New York Times 14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Woesik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Krupovic and Koonin, 2014; van Woesik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Krupovic and Koonin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Edgar et al., 2007)

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