How to format your references using the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (JMBA). 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

Mestel L (2005) Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature 437, 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheetham SW and Brand AH (2013) Cell biology. Insulin finds its niche. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, 817–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fasel R, Parschau M and Ernst K-H (2006) Amplification of chirality in two-dimensional enantiomorphous lattices. Nature 439, 449–452.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li D, Yan Z, Lu L, Jiang H and Wang W (2014) Pleiotropy of the de novo-originated gene MDF1. Scientific Reports 4, 7280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sehgal V (2011) Supply Chain as Strategic Asset. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wesch W and Wendler E (Eds.) (2016) Ion Beam Modification of Solids: Ion-Solid Interaction and Radiation Damage, Vol. 61. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Akondi KB and Lakshmi VV (2014) Challenges and Prospects in Exploring Marine Microbial Diversity. In Fulekar M. H., Pathak Bhawana and Kale R. K. (eds.) Environment and Sustainable Development, pp. 47–58. New Delhi: Springer India.

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 the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014, March 1) New State of Matter Discovered. Available at (Accessed 30 October 2018)

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 (1998) FCC: Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Public Safety Agency Communication Requirements Through 2010, Establishment of Rules and Requirements for Priority Access Service No. OGC-99-14. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Corona B (2012) Laws governing the treatment, involuntary detention and community integration of individuals with developmental disabilities: A policy analysis 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

Ruprecht T (2011, July 7) In Too Deep. New York Times, p. MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mestel, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mestel, 2005; Cheetham & Brand, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cheetham & Brand, 2013)
Three authors: (Fasel et al., 2006)
Four or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K.
ISSN (print)	0025-3154
ISSN (online)	1469-7769
Scope	Aquatic Science