How to format your references using the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 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

Holmes, K.V. Structural Biology. Adaptation of SARS Coronavirus to Humans. Science 2005, 309, 1822–1823.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broza, M.; Halpern, M. Pathogen Reservoirs. Chironomid Egg Masses and Vibrio Cholerae. Nature 2001, 412, 40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, D.S.; Komdeur, J.; Burke, T. Avian Behaviour: Altruism and Infidelity among Warblers. Nature 2003, 422, 580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Takáts, Z.; Wiseman, J.M.; Gologan, B.; Cooks, R.G. Mass Spectrometry Sampling under Ambient Conditions with Desorption Electrospray Ionization. Science 2004, 306, 471–473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye, T. Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation; Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2008; ISBN 9780470691809.

An edited book

Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion: European Perspectives; Gemzöe, L., Keinänen, M.-L., Maddrell, A., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319425979.

A chapter in an edited book

Stevenson, J.H. Tissue Scanning. In Basics of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound; Daniels, J.M., Dexter, W.W., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; pp. 15–27 ISBN 9781461432142.

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Evans, K. New York Gives Go Ahead To Build Largest Offshore Wind Farm In The US Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-york-gives-go-ahead-to-build-largest-offshore-wind-farm-in-the-us/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Youth Job Training: Problems Measuring Attainment of Employment Competencies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hill, J.A. Classical Three-Body Systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theorem. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Koblin, J. CBS Anchor Bids Farewell, Then Is Asked to Leave. New York Times 2017, B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (online)	2077-1312
Scope