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

Holden, C., 2000. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY: Ruling Allows Unions at Private Colleges. Science 290, 1069–1071.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stocker, T.F., Plattner, G.-K., 2014. Climate policy: Rethink IPCC reports. Nature 513, 163–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray-Schopfer, V., Wellbrock, C., Marais, R., 2007. Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy. Nature 445, 851–857.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Y.-P., Suksanpaisan, L., Steele, M.B., Russell, S.J., Peng, K.-W., 2013. Induction of antiviral genes by the tumor microenvironment confers resistance to virotherapy. Sci. Rep. 3, 2375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Ruyet, D., Pischella, M., 2015. Digital Communications 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aldini, A., Barthe, G., Gorrieri, R. (Eds.), 2009. Foundations of Security Analysis and Design V: FOSAD 2007/2008/2009 Tutorial Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sapaty, P.S., 2014. The World as Distributed Brain with Spatial Grasp Paradigm, in: Chen, L., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (Eds.), Intelligent Systems for Science and Information: Extended and Selected Results from the Science and Information Conference 2013, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–85.

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., 2014. Scientists Make Hilarious Proofreading Error [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sciences-worst-proofreading-error/ (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, 2007. Information Technology: Further Improvements Needed to identify and Oversee Poorly Planned and Performing Projects (No. GAO-07-1211T). 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

Santos, E., 2019. Altruism in Psychotherapy: Altruistic Acts as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Dynarski, S., 2015. The Power of a Simple Nudge. New York Times BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Holden, 2000; Stocker and Plattner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stocker and Plattner, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

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