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

Morrow R (2008) Engineering. Wi-Fi-Fo-Fum. Science 320:1018–1019

A journal article with 2 authors

Winkowski DE, Knudsen EI (2006) Top-down gain control of the auditory space map by gaze control circuitry in the barn owl. Nature 439:336–339

A journal article with 3 authors

Gollo LL, Kinouchi O, Copelli M (2013) Single-neuron criticality optimizes analog dendritic computation. Sci Rep 3:3222

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Uga Y, Yamamoto E, Kanno N, et al (2013) A major QTL controlling deep rooting on rice chromosome 4. Sci Rep 3:3040

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi M (2007) Stereoselective Synthesis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Rountree K, Morris C, Peatfield AAD (2012) Archaeology of Spiritualities. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Chauhan VS (2016) India’s Experience with Cash Management. In: Singh C (ed) Public Debt Management: Separation of Debt from Monetary Management in India. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 57–66

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

Fang J (2014) Water found on extrasolar ‘hot Jupiter.’ In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-found-extrasolar-‘hot-jupiter’/. 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 (1982) Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process. 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

Moreno S (2009) Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Paulson M (2017) Tight Tony Battles and Sure Bets. New York Times C1

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