How to format your references using the Marine and Petroleum Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine and Petroleum Geology. 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

Rees, J., 2002. Complex disease and the new clinical sciences. Science 296, 698–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gautel, M., Ehler, E., 2010. Cell biology. Gett’N-WASP stripes. Science 330, 1491–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pascoli, V., Turiault, M., Lüscher, C., 2011. Reversal of cocaine-evoked synaptic potentiation resets drug-induced adaptive behaviour. Nature 481, 71–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jimenez-Useche, I., Ke, J., Tian, Y., Shim, D., Howell, S.C., Qiu, X., Yuan, C., 2013. DNA methylation regulated nucleosome dynamics. Sci. Rep. 3, 2121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanbésien, O., 2012. Artificial Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Moloney, R., Xu, H.L. (Eds.), 2016. Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Multilingual Education. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Kozera, R., Noakes, L., Szmielew, P., 2014. Length Estimation for Exponential Parameterization and ε-Uniform Samplings, in: Huang, F., Sugimoto, A. (Eds.), Image and Video Technology – PSIVT 2013 Workshops: GCCV 2013, GPID 2013, PAESNPR 2013, and QACIVA 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 28-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–46.

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 Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Study On Near-Death Experiences Sheds Light On Consciousness After Death [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, 2008. Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions (No. GAO-08-1030T). 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

Woo, C., 2008. Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Novel: Nation, Identity, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Brantley, B., 2016. Seizing the Day, Hankie in Hand. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rees, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gautel and Ehler, 2010; Rees, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gautel and Ehler, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jimenez-Useche et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine and Petroleum Geology
Abbreviation	Mar. Pet. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0264-8172
Scope	Economic Geology Geology Geophysics Oceanography Stratigraphy