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

Long, J.C.S., 2011. Piecemeal cuts won’t add up to radical reductions. Nature 478, 429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori, M., Gouaux, E., 2012. Molecular mechanism of ATP binding and ion channel activation in P2X receptors. Nature 485, 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barwick, B., Flannigan, D.J., Zewail, A.H., 2009. Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy. Nature 462, 902–906.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Abbamonte, P., Blumberg, G., Rusydi, A., Gozar, A., Evans, P.G., Siegrist, T., Venema, L., Eisaki, H., Isaacs, E.D., Sawatzky, G.A., 2004. Crystallization of charge holes in the spin ladder of Sr14Cu24O41. Nature 431, 1078–1081.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burger, M., Graeber, B., Schindlmayr, G., 2014. Managing Energy Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Seckbach, J., Kociolek, P. (Eds.), 2011. The Diatom World, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Yip, N.M., 2013. Challenges to Public Housing in Post-colonial Hong Kong, in: Chen, J., Stephens, M., Man, Y. (Eds.), The Future of Public Housing: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–83.

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., 2014. Mysterious 55-Million-Year-Old Rhino-Horse Relative Found in India [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mysterious-55-million-year-old-rhino-horse-relative-found-india/ (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, 1991. U.S.-Korea Fighter Coproduction Program--the F-16 Version (No. T-NSIAD-91-53). 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

Lamb, B.K., 2015. A Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Roundabout and a Signalized Intersection in a Mid-Sized City (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Peters, J.W., 2017. A Conspiracy Theorist, His False Comey Tweet And a Runaway Story. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Long, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hattori and Gouaux, 2012; Long, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hattori and Gouaux, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Abbamonte 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

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