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

Bray D. Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science. 2003 Sep 26;301(5641):1864–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgianna DR, Mayfield SP. Exploiting diversity and synthetic biology for the production of algal biofuels. Nature. 2012 Aug 16;488(7411):329–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howat IM, Joughin I, Scambos TA. Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science. 2007 Mar 16;315(5818):1559–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Helenius J, Brouhard G, Kalaidzidis Y, Diez S, Howard J. The depolymerizing kinesin MCAK uses lattice diffusion to rapidly target microtubule ends. Nature. 2006 May 4;441(7089):115–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mack I. Energy Trading and Risk Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Daneva M, Pastor O, editors. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 22nd International Working Conference, REFSQ 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 14-17, 2016, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jakhu RS, Pelton JN. The Global Legal Guidelines Governing Satellite Deployment. In: Pelton JN, editor. Small Satellites and Their Regulation. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 43–8.

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

Carpineti A. Researchers Describe How To Make Antimatter With A Laser [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-describe-how-to-make-antimatter-with-a-laser/

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. Public Transit: Information on Job Access and Reverse Commute Activities after 2012 Statutory Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 May. Report No.: GAO-17-483.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mersch C. Campus-based drunk-driving intervention program: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Isherwood C. An Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss. New York Times. 2016 May 9;C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bray 2003; Georgianna and Mayfield 2012).

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

Two authors: (Georgianna and Mayfield 2012)
Three or more authors: (Helenius et al. 2006)

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