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

Gershon, D., 2000. Western researchers reap rich rewards in eastern institutions. Nature 407, 657–658.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metz, M., Fütterer, J., 2002. Biodiversity (Communications arising): suspect evidence of transgenic contamination. Nature 416, 600–1; discussion 600, 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, J.D., Kirk, J.A., Hunt, T., 2003. Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science 300, 987–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K.A., Cassidy, E.S., Gerber, J.S., Johnston, M., Mueller, N.D., O’Connell, C., Ray, D.K., West, P.C., Balzer, C., Bennett, E.M., Carpenter, S.R., Hill, J., Monfreda, C., Polasky, S., Rockström, J., Sheehan, J., Siebert, S., Tilman, D., Zaks, D.P.M., 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478, 337–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan, J.-F., 2014. Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 3. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rogers, J.A., Ghaffari, R., Kim, D.-H. (Eds.), 2016. Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems, Microsystems and Nanosystems. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Koshmanenko, V., Dudkin, M., 2016. Rigged Hilbert Spaces, in: Dudkin, M. (Ed.), The Method of Rigged Spaces in Singular Perturbation Theory of Self-Adjoint Operators, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 61–71.

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

Hale, T., 2017. The Second Case Of “Down’s Syndrome” In A Chimp Has Been Reported By Scientists [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, 2001. Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information (No. GAO-01-126SP). 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

Krauss, W.F., 2010. The role of a middle management team during a directed restructuring: A case study of a government agency using Stones’ strong structuration (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

Billard, M., 2010. A New Bag, A New Space. New York Times E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Metz and Fütterer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Metz and Fütterer, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Foley et al., 2011)

About the journal

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