How to format your references using the Marine Biodiversity Records citation style

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

Hublin J-J. Anthropology. How to build a Neandertal. Science. 2014 Jun 20;344(6190):1338–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keene WC, Pszenny AAP. Comment on “Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles” (I). Science. 2004 Jan 30;303(5658):628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mennill DJ, Ratcliffe LM, Boag PT. Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science. 2002 May 3;296(5569):873.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alarico S, Costa M, Sousa MS, Maranha A, Lourenço EC, Faria TQ, et al. Mycobacterium hassiacum recovers from nitrogen starvation with up-regulation of a novel glucosylglycerate hydrolase and depletion of the accumulated glucosylglycerate. Sci. Rep. 2014 Oct 24;4:6766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs J, Titchen A. Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Gao F, Shi K, Li S, editors. Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirsch F, Profeta C, Roynette B, Yor M. The Sato Process Method. In: Profeta C, Roynette B, Yor M, editors. Peacocks and Associated Martingales, with Explicit Constructions. Milano: Springer; 2011. p. 181–221.

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 Records.

Blog post

Andrew E. LightSail has Disintegrated in our Atmosphere [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lightsail-has-returned-earth/

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. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Spanish Version). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Aug. Report No.: GAO-06-949.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Stroud M. Solar desalination in the southwest United States: A thermoeconomic analysis utilizing the sun to desalt water in high irradiance regions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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

Vecsey G. Here’s the Kicker: He Was Suddenly A Punter, Too. New York Times. 2010 Jan 10;SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hublin 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hublin 2014; Keene and Pszenny 2004).

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

Two authors: (Keene and Pszenny 2004)
Three or more authors: (Alarico et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Biodiversity Records
Abbreviation	Mar. Biodivers. Rec.
ISSN (online)	1755-2672
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Ecology