How to format your references using the Journal of Marine Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marine Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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

Klein, R.G., 2003. Paleoanthropology. Whither the Neanderthals? Science 299, 1525–1527.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sesma, A., Osbourn, A.E., 2004. The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi. Nature 431, 582–586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruder, W.C., Lu, T., Collins, J.J., 2011. Synthetic biology moving into the clinic. Science 333, 1248–1252.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone, E.C., Cummings, A.C., McDonald, F.B., Heikkila, B.C., Lal, N., Webber, W.R., 2005. Voyager 1 explores the termination shock region and the heliosheath beyond. Science 309, 2017–2020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lagraña, F., 2016. E-mail and Behavioral Changes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Richtering, W. (Ed.), 2006. Smart Colloidal Materials, Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cordero, A., Torregrosa, J.R., 2016. On the Design of Optimal Iterative Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations, in: Amat, S., Busquier, S. (Eds.), Advances in Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations, SEMA SIMAI Springer Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–111.

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 Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. People Who Trim Their Pubes Are More Likely To Have An STI [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, 1985. Proprietary School Compliance With Requirements of the Pell Grant Program (No. 127542). 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

Taylor, M.S., 2015. Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries (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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. The Roberts Court Takes On Abortion. New York Times WK14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klein, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Klein, 2003; Sesma and Osbourn, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sesma and Osbourn, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Stone et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marine Systems
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0924-7963
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography