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

Merrow, M., 2010. Journal club. A chronobiologist makes sense of circadian dysfunction in illness. Nature 467, 135.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacArthur, B.D., Oreffo, R.O.C., 2005. Bridging the gap. Nature 433, 19.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serganov, A., Huang, L., Patel, D.J., 2008. Structural insights into amino acid binding and gene control by a lysine riboswitch. Nature 455, 1263–1267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gatesy, J., Hayashi, C., Motriuk, D., Woods, J., Lewis, R., 2001. Extreme diversity, conservation, and convergence of spider silk fibroin sequences. Science 291, 2603–2605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paultre, P., 2013. Dynamics of Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Strominger, N.L., 2012. Noback’s Human Nervous System, Seventh Edition: Structure and Function, 7th ed. 2012. ed. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Zhu, W., Zhou, M., Wang, H., 2011. Power Mean Based Crossover Rate Adaptive Differential Evolution, in: Deng, H., Miao, D., Lei, J., Wang, F.L. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–41.

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

Taub, B., 2016. The Brains Of Amputees Remember Their Lost Limbs For Decades [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-amputees-remember-their-lost-limbs-decades/ (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, 2016. Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements (No. GAO-16-573). 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

Bailey, R.U., 2015. A Risk Analysis Tool for Evaluating ROI of TRA for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (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

Wagner, J., 2016. The Mets Blow a Lead, but a Hunch Pays Off. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Merrow, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (MacArthur and Oreffo, 2005; Merrow, 2010).

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

Two authors: (MacArthur and Oreffo, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gatesy et al., 2001)

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