How to format your references using the Journal of Marine and Island Cultures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marine and Island Cultures. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Nisini, B., 2000. ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Water’s Role in Making Stars. Science 290, 1513–1514.

A journal article with 2 authors

Artis, D., Spits, H., 2015. The biology of innate lymphoid cells. Nature 517, 293–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi, A., Kim, B., Matsuoka, S., 2013. The mitochondrial Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, NCLX, regulates automaticity of HL-1 cardiomyocytes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Y., Liang, B., Gu, Z.-M., Zou, X.-Y., Cheng, J.-C., 2013. Reflected wavefront manipulation based on ultrathin planar acoustic metasurfaces. Sci. Rep. 3, 2546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anwar, S., Carroll, J.J., 2016. Carbon Dioxide Thermodynamic Properties Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dal’Bo, F., Peigné, M., Sambusetti, A. (Eds.), 2014. Analytic and Probabilistic Approaches to Dynamics in Negative Curvature, Springer INdAM Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ito, M., Kari, L., Kincaid, Z., Seki, S., 2009. Duplication in DNA Sequences, in: Condon, A., Harel, D., Kok, J.N., Salomaa, A., Winfree, E. (Eds.), Algorithmic Bioprocesses, Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–61.

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 Marine and Island Cultures.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. More Efficient Balls, Not Bigger Ones, Win the Mouse Sperm Race [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/more-efficient-balls-not-bigger-ones-win-mouse-sperm-race/ (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, 1987. ADP, IRM & Telecommunications 1986 (No. IMTEC-87-18). 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

Simon-Owens, N.L., 2010. Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: An exploration of factors affecting organizational leadership (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Tate, J., 2017. The Afterlife. New York Times MM17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nisini, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Artis and Spits, 2015; Nisini, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Artis and Spits, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marine and Island Cultures
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Isl. Cult.
ISSN (print)	2212-6821
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