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

MacDonald, H.R., 2002. Immunology. T before NK. Science 296, 481–482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plug, L.J., Werner, B.T., 2002. Nonlinear dynamics of ice-wedge networks and resulting sensitivity to severe cooling events. Nature 417, 929–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks, S.J., Currie, B., Bakun, A., 2002. Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic. Nature 415, 493–494.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Q., Rand, T.A., Kalidas, S., Du, F., Kim, H.-E., Smith, D.P., Wang, X., 2003. R2D2, a bridge between the initiation and effector steps of the Drosophila RNAi pathway. Science 301, 1921–1925.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krishnan, V., 2006. Probability and Random Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yuizono, T., Zurita, G., Baloian, N., Inoue, T., Ogata, H. (Eds.), 2014. Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing: 7th International Conference, CollabTech 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 8-10, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hudson, M.J., Kim, R.G., Goldberg, E., 2016. The Endoscopic Management of Biliary and Pancreatic Injury, in: Adler, D.G. (Ed.), Advanced Pancreaticobiliary Endoscopy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 67–91.

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 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Australian Radio Telescope Begins Hunt For Intelligent Alien Life [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. Feasibility of Requiring Financial Assurances for the Recall or Destruction of Unsafe Consumer Products (No. GAO-09-512R). 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

Le, J.T., 2013. Support group for women who experience perinatal loss: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Underdog’s Feat Is Inspiration for Cricket’s Dreamers. New York Times SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (MacDonald, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (MacDonald, 2002; Plug and Werner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Plug and Werner, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2003)

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