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

Byrne, N., 2004. Future outlook. Nature 429, 25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., Norman, C., 2011. 2010 Visualization Challenge. Science 331, 847–856.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dwyer, M.A., Looger, L.L., Hellinga, H.W., 2004. Computational design of a biologically active enzyme. Science 304, 1967–1971.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, P., Xu, B., Liu, H., He, S., Saleem, F., Wang, X., 2013. Polyoxometalate-based supramolecular gel. Sci. Rep. 3, 1833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, L., 2013. Control of Biological and Drug-Delivery Systems for Chemical, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schill, W.-B., Comhaire, F., Hargreave, T.B. (Eds.), 2006. Andrology for the Clinician. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanchez-Infantes, D., Elks, C.M., Stephens, J.M., 2014. Pathophysiology of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Rodent Models, in: Mullin, G.E., Cheskin, L.J., Matarese, L.E. (Eds.), Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 35–46.

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

Fang, J., 2015. How Ethiopian Highlanders Adapted To Their Low Oxygen Conditions [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, 2013. Cargo Tank Trucks: Improved Incident Data and Regulatory Analysis Would Better Inform Decisions about Safety Risks (No. GAO-13-721). 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

Jin, R., 2017. Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Feeney, K., 2007. In a Word, Fabulous. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Byrne, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Byrne, 2004; Nesbit and Norman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit and Norman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (He 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