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

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

Besansky NJ (2014) Malaria: How vector mosquitoes beat the heat. Nature 516:334–336

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter RM, Gammon P (2004) New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science 304:1659–1662

A journal article with 3 authors

Tao C, Cullen WG, Williams ED (2010) Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science 328:736–740

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Strukov DB, Snider GS, Stewart DR, Williams RS (2008) The missing memristor found. Nature 453:80–83

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy T (2012) Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Charlés LL, Samarasinghe G (2016) Family Therapy in Global Humanitarian Contexts: Voices and Issues from the Field. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Whitman GJ, Kushwaha AC (2008) Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast, and Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast. In: Hunt KK, Robb GL, Strom EA, Ueno NT (eds) Breast Cancer 2nd edition. Springer, New York, NY, pp 83–120

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 Technology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) 6,000-Year-Old Amulet Represents A Tech That Helped Take Humanity Into Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/6000yearold-amulet-represents-tech-helped-humanity-space/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Voice of America: Station Modernization Projects Need to Be Justified. 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

Douville S (2014) The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Whiteside K, Das A, Lyall S (2017) The Winner, in a Comeback. New York Times B8

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 Technology
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0948-4280
ISSN (online)	1437-8213
Scope	Oceanography Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ocean Engineering