How to format your references using the ICES Journal of Marine Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ICES Journal of Marine Science. 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

Kerbel, R. S. 2006. Antiangiogenic therapy: a universal chemosensitization strategy for cancer? Science (New York, N.Y.), 312: 1171–1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Duchek, P., and Rørth, P. 2001. Guidance of cell migration by EGF receptor signaling during Drosophila oogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291: 131–133.

A journal article with 3 authors

Durham, W. M., Kessler, J. O., and Stocker, R. 2009. Disruption of vertical motility by shear triggers formation of thin phytoplankton layers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323: 1067–1070.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huber, C., Eisenreich, W., Hecht, S., and Wächtershäuser, G. 2003. A possible primordial peptide cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301: 938–940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker, G., and Thomson, D. 2006. Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Witzany, G. (Ed). 2011. Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms. Soil Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XX, 476 p. 75 illus., 22 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Tytler, R., Hubber, P., and Prain, V. 2013. Structuring Learning Sequences. In Constructing Representations to Learn in Science, pp. 51–65. Ed. by R. Tytler, V. Prain, P. Hubber, and B. Waldrip. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

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 ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015, February 6. Fossil Peruvian Monkey May Have Originated in Africa. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossil-peruvian-monkey-may-have-originated-africa/ (Accessed 30 October 2018).

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. 1990. FTS 2000: An Overview of the Federal Government’s New Telecommunications System. IMTEC-90-17FS. 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

Anderson, D. 2004. Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Pilon, M. 2012, August 9. Coaching The Kayakers On 2 Wheels. New York Times: B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerbel, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Duchek and Rørth, 2001; Kerbel, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Duchek and Rørth, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Huber et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	ICES Journal of Marine Science
Abbreviation	ICES J. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1054-3139
ISSN (online)	1095-9289
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Ecology