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

Reich PB (2009) Elevated CO2 reduces losses of plant diversity caused by nitrogen deposition. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, 1399–1402.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubcovsky J and Dvorak J (2007) Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, 1862–1866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aarts H, Custers R and Marien H (2008) Preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, 1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yin L, Zhu M, Knoll AH, Yuan X, Zhang J and Hu J (2007) Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts. Nature 446, 661–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jeong H (2014) Architectures for Computer Vision. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jones C, Pihlajasaari P and Sun J (Eds.) (2014) FM 2014: Formal Methods: 19th International Symposium, Singapore, May 12-16, 2014. Proceedings, Vol. 8442. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bucher T and Winter R (2010) Taxonomy of Business Process Management Approaches. In vom Brocke Jan and Rosemann Michael (eds.) Handbook on Business Process Management 2: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture, pp. 93–114. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Davis J (2016, June 20) Early Mammals May Have Gained Night Vision By Losing Ability To See Ultraviolet. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-mammals-may-have-gained-night-vision-by-losing-ability-to-see-ultraviolet/ (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 (2005) Activities of the Amtrak Inspector General No. GAO-05-306R. 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

Lancelin DB (2017) A Phenomenological Case Study of Teacher Experiences with and Understanding of Instruction Aligned to the CCSS, and their Role in Advancing Equal Educational Opportunities for Students Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kelly M (1993, January 18) THE INAUGURATION: Seizing the Day; New President Brings Opportunity to Cash In. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reich, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dubcovsky & Dvorak, 2007; Reich, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Dubcovsky & Dvorak, 2007)
Three authors: (Aarts et al., 2008)
Four or more authors: (Yin et al., 2007)

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