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

Kassen, R., 2011. If you want to win the game, you must join in. Nature 480, 153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ackland, G.J., Butler, D., 2001. Pack formation in cycling and orienteering. Nature 413, 127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumarevel, T., Mizuno, H., Kumar, P.K.R., 2005. Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand. Nature 434, 183–191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wainger, B.J., DeGennaro, M., Santoro, B., Siegelbaum, S.A., Tibbs, G.R., 2001. Molecular mechanism of cAMP modulation of HCN pacemaker channels. Nature 411, 805–810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tissue, B.M., 2013. Basics of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Equilibria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brasier, A.R. (Ed.), 2014. Heterogeneity in Asthma, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Neergheen-Bhujun, V.S., Kang, K.S., Aruoma, O.I., Bahorun, T., 2012. Dietary Biofactors in the Management of Cancer: Myth or Reality?, in: Shankar, S., Srivastava, R.K. (Eds.), Nutrition, Diet and Cancer. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 109–127.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. A Clue To How Supermassive Black Holes Heat Up Galaxies And Kill Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/clue-how-supermassive-black-holes-heats-galaxies-and-kill-stars/ (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, 1994. NASA Contract Management: Improving the Use of DCAA’s Auditing Services (No. NSIAD-94-229). 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

Hollenbeck, J.L., 2017. The Challenge of U.S. West Coast Earthquake Response: Federal Urban Search and Rescue (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

Kishkovsky, S., 2008. Boris Fyodorov, 50, Dies; Guided Reforms in Russia. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kassen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ackland and Butler, 2001; Kassen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ackland and Butler, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wainger et al., 2001)

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

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