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

Gophna, U., 2011. Microbiology. The guts of dietary habits. Science 334, 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S.E., Gaines, R.R., 2012. Formation of the “Great Unconformity” as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Nature 484, 363–366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kartal, B., Kuenen, J.G., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., 2010. Engineering. Sewage treatment with anammox. Science 328, 702–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zollikofer, C.P.E., Ponce de León, M.S., Lieberman, D.E., Guy, F., Pilbeam, D., Likius, A., Mackaye, H.T., Vignaud, P., Brunet, M., 2005. Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Nature 434, 755–759.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waine, C., 2008. Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Sidharth, B.G. (Ed.), 2008. A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century, Fundamental Theories of Physics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuś, Z., Nawrat, A., 2013. Object Tracking in a Picture during Rapid Camera Movements, in: Nawrat, A., Kuś, Z. (Eds.), Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, pp. 77–91.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Melting Permafrost Could Thaw A Smallpox Graveyard In Siberia [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, 2009. Motor Carrier Safety: Reincarnating Commercial Vehicle Companies Pose Safety Threat to Motoring Public; Federal Safety Agency Has Initiated Efforts to Prevent Future Occurrences (No. GAO-09-924). 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

Robey, A.M., 2017. The Benefits of Testing: Individual Differences Based on Student Factors (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

Henking, S., 2013. Drawn to Uncertainties. New York Times BU7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gophna, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gophna, 2011; Peters and Gaines, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Gaines, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zollikofer et al., 2005)

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