How to format your references using the Marine Biodiversity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Biodiversity. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Walker NJ (2002) Tech.Sight. A technique whose time has come. Science 296:557–559

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyerly AD, Faden RR (2007) Embryonic stem cells. Willingness to donate frozen embryos for stem cell research. Science 317:46–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Gneezy U, Keenan EA, Gneezy A (2014) Behavioral economics. Avoiding overhead aversion in charity. Science 346:632–635

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kinoshita T, Doi M, Suetsugu N, et al (2001) Phot1 and phot2 mediate blue light regulation of stomatal opening. Nature 414:656–660

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin WC (2014) Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liu B-L, Lee S-J, Wang L, et al (eds) (2014) Contemporary Logistics in China: Consolidation and Deepening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hiddink GA, Termorshuizen AJ, van Bruggen AHC (2010) Mixed Cropping and Suppression of Soilborne Diseases. In: Lichtfouse E (ed) Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 119–146

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 Biodiversity.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Scientists Transform Algae Into Cancer-Killing Drug Delivery Systems. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-transform-algae-cancer-killing-drug-delivery-systems/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2011) Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. 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

Forlizzi ML (2008) Congruency of supervisor and counselor perceptions of actual and preferred counselor work behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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 (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Readies Answer to Bush On Draft Issue. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walker 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Walker 2002; Lyerly and Faden 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lyerly and Faden 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kinoshita et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Biodiversity
Abbreviation	Mar. Biodivers.
ISSN (print)	1867-1616
ISSN (online)	1867-1624
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography