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

Smaglik P (2004) Starting the brain gain. Nature 427:267

A journal article with 2 authors

Huynh KD, Lee JT (2003) Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Nature 426:857–862

A journal article with 3 authors

Dwyer G, Dushoff J, Yee SH (2004) The combined effects of pathogens and predators on insect outbreaks. Nature 430:341–345

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li J, Wang X, Zhao L, et al (2014) Rotation motion of designed nano-turbine. Sci Rep 4:5846

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Candy JV (2005) Model-Based Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yoshida H, Cai W (2011) Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging. Computational Challenges and Clinical Opportunities: Second International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rudenstine S, Galea S (2012) The Continuum of Vulnerabilities and Capacities. In: Galea S (ed) The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters: Models informed by the global experience 1950-2005. Springer, New York, NY, pp 23–27

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

Luntz S (2016) Open Source Science Explores Malaria Drugs. In: IFLScience. 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 (1987) Aviation Security: FAA Preboard Passenger Screening Test Results. 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

Lara C (2015) Bullying victimization among adolescent students: A qualitative study. 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

Wogan J (2017) In Store; No Red, No Blue. New York Times ST3

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