How to format your references using the Journal of Sea Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sea Research. 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

Wicherts, J.M., 2011. Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case. Nature 480, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheldon, B.C., Mangel, M., 2014. Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour. Nature 512, 381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson, G.E., Miljkovic, V., Dmitriev, A., 2014. Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Sci. Rep. 4, 5111.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Madueno, R., Räisänen, M.T., Silien, C., Buck, M., 2008. Functionalizing hydrogen-bonded surface networks with self-assembled monolayers. Nature 454, 618–621.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens, H., 2012. Building Physics: Heat, Air and Moisture. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Chen, W.-Y., Seiner, J., Suzuki, T., Lackner, M. (Eds.), 2012. Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation. Springer US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Álvarez, S., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Kifor, T., Varga, L.Z., Willmott, S., 2006. Applying Provenance in Distributed Organ Transplant Management, in: Moreau, L., Foster, I. (Eds.), Provenance and Annotation of Data: International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2006, Chicago, IL, USA, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 28–36.

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 Sea Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Scientists Create Diamond Battery Fueled By Nuclear Waste [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-create-diamond-battery-fueled-by-nuclear-waste/ (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, 2008. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program (No. GAO-08-1181T). 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

Zimmerman, K.L., 2017. Perceived and preferred organizational culture on behavior intentions in the hospitality industry (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Goldman, R., 2017. Saudis Arrest Woman Seen In Miniskirt In Video Clip. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wicherts, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Sheldon and Mangel, 2014; Wicherts, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sheldon and Mangel, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Madueno et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sea Research
Abbreviation	J. Sea Res.
ISSN (print)	1385-1101
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography