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

Tidwell, L. 2004. Scientists and societies. First, find your postdocs. Nature, 428: 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, H., and Siegel, R. M. 2011. Medicine. Progranulin resolves inflammation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332: 427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karnath, H.-O., Borchers, S., and Himmelbach, M. 2010. Comment on ‘Movement intention after parietal cortex stimulation in humans’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327: 1200; author reply 1200.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Peng, C. Y., Manning, L., Albertson, R., and Doe, C. Q. 2000. The tumour-suppressor genes lgl and dlg regulate basal protein targeting in Drosophila neuroblasts. Nature, 408: 596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen, W. 2010. Strategic Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cho, J. M., Roberts, L. M., and Spang, C. W. (Eds). 2016. Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan: Perceptions of Partnership in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY. IX, 280 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Arvanitidis, P. A., Nasioka, F., and Dimogianni, S. 2015. Water Resource Management in Larisa: A “Tragedy of the Commons?” In Sustainable Water Use and Management: Examples of New Approaches and Perspectives, pp. 65–89. Ed. by W. Leal Filho and V. Sümer. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Andrews, R. 2016, June 30. The Paris Climate Change Agreement Won’t Keep Warming Below 2 Degrees. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-climate-change-agreement-keep-warming-below-2-degrees/ (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. 2013. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Major Investments. GAO-13-478T. 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

Kramer, K. A. 2010. System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Takei, G. 2017, April 29. A Place Called Manzanar. New York Times: A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tidwell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Tidwell, 2004; Wu and Siegel, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Siegel, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Peng et al., 2000)

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