How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 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

Hoeijmakers, J.H., 2001. Genome maintenance mechanisms for preventing cancer. Nature 411, 366–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bel, S., Hooper, L.V., 2015. Immunology: A bacterial nudge to T-cell function. Nature 526, 328–330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shih, W.M., Quispe, J.D., Joyce, G.F., 2004. A 1.7-kilobase single-stranded DNA that folds into a nanoscale octahedron. Nature 427, 618–621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Frischmeyer, P.A., van Hoof, A., O’Donnell, K., Guerrerio, A.L., Parker, R., Dietz, H.C., 2002. An mRNA surveillance mechanism that eliminates transcripts lacking termination codons. Science 295, 2258–2261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khoei, A.R., 2014. Extended Finite Element Method. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cao, Z., 2008. Low-Power High-Speed ADCs for Nanometer CMOS Integration, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hong, L., Xu, J.-X., 2012. Crises in Chaotic Systems, in: Sun, J.-Q., Luo, A.C.J. (Eds.), Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 75–105.

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 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Best Medical Images Of The Year: A Mesmerising Nano-World Where Science Becomes Art [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/best-medical-images-year-mesmerising-nano-world-where-science-becomes-art/ (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, 1972. Opportunities for Improving Federally Assisted Manpower Programs Identified as a Result of Review in the Atlanta, Georgia, Area (No. B-146879). 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

Alexander, M., 2009. Reasoning processes used by paramedics to solve clinical problems (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Philipps, D., Hubbard, B., 2017. U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoeijmakers, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bel and Hooper, 2015; Hoeijmakers, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bel and Hooper, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Frischmeyer et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0981
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics