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

Becker, S., 2014. Rhubarb pie and science. Science 345, 1534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tyers, M., Mann, M., 2003. From genomics to proteomics. Nature 422, 193–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munsky, B., Neuert, G., van Oudenaarden, A., 2012. Using gene expression noise to understand gene regulation. Science 336, 183–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stanfield, R.L., Dooley, H., Flajnik, M.F., Wilson, I.A., 2004. Crystal structure of a shark single-domain antibody V region in complex with lysozyme. Science 305, 1770–1773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ohshima, H., 2010. Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gjedrem, T. (Ed.), 2005. Selection and Breeding Programs in Aquaculture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, S.R., Rathore, H., 2015. Two-Warehouse Reverse Logistic Inventory Model for Deteriorating Item under Learning Effect, in: Das, K.N., Deep, K., Pant, M., Bansal, J.C., Nagar, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2014, Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 45–57.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Study Suggests Atheists Are More Intelligent Because They Can Override Religious Instinct [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-suggests-atheists-are-more-intelligent-because-they-can-override-religious-instinct-/ (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, 2003. Telecommunications: FCC Should Include Call Quality in Its Annual Report on Competition in Mobile Phone Services (No. GAO-03-501). 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

Mac Garrigle, E.F., 2006. A validation of the enterprise management engineering approach to knowledge management systems engineering (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. What Shot Rocky Up Those Steps. New York Times AR12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Becker, 2014; Tyers and Mann, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Tyers and Mann, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stanfield et al., 2004)

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