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

Gravitz, L., 2013. Cancer immunotherapy. Nature 504, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kunz, W., Kellermeier, M., 2009. Materials science. Beyond biomineralization. Science 323, 344–345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi-Xiang, Y., Ye, J., Liu, W.-M., 2013. Goldstone and Higgs modes of photons inside a cavity. Sci. Rep. 3, 3476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Crampton, J.S., Beu, A.G., Cooper, R.A., Jones, C.M., Marshall, B., Maxwell, P.A., 2003. Estimating the rock volume bias in paleobiodiversity studies. Science 301, 358–360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kusumoto, F., 2015. Understanding Intracardiac EGMs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hilder, S., Bettinson, V. (Eds.), 2016. Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Strumia, M., Ramantani, G., Mader, I., Henning, J., Bai, L., Hadjidemetriou, S., 2013. Analysis of Structural MRI Data for the Localisation of Focal Cortical Dysplasia in Epilepsy, in: Drechsler, K., Erdt, M., Linguraru, M.G., Oyarzun Laura, C., Sharma, K., Shekhar, R., Wesarg, S. (Eds.), Clinical Image-Based Procedures. From Planning to Intervention: International Workshop, CLIP 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change [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, 1977. Examination of the Pricing of a Negotiated Fixed-Price Incentive Contract Awarded on a Noncompetitive Basis (No. 103244). 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

Gada, K.K., 2015. Numerical analyses of passive and active flow control over a micro air vehicle with an optimized airfoil (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2012. Alchemists Needed for Mets’ Golden Anniversary. New York Times SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz, 2013; Kunz and Kellermeier, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kunz and Kellermeier, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Crampton et al., 2003)

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