How to format your references using the Marine Biotechnology citation style

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

Koenig R (2000) IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science. Science 290:1485

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouwens RJ, Illingworth GD (2006) Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years. Nature 443:189–192

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiesecker JM, Blaustein AR, Belden LK (2001) Complex causes of amphibian population declines. Nature 410:681–684

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Martin KH, Slack JK, Boerner SA, et al (2002) Integrin connections map: to infinity and beyond. Science 296:1652–1653

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tasman A, Kay J, Ursano RJ (2013) The Psychiatric Interview. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Petta P, Müller JP, Klusch M, Georgeff M (eds) (2007) Multiagent System Technologies: 5th German Conference, MATES 2007, Leipzig, Germany, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Zarrouki B, Fontés G, Semache M, et al (2014) The Beta Cell in Metabolic Syndrome. In: Orešič M, Vidal-Puig A (eds) A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic Syndrome. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 85–109

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 Biotechnology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) You Can Now View More Than 10,000 High-Res Photos From The Apollo Missions. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-view-8400-high-res-photos-apollo-missions/. 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 (2013) Telecommunications: GSA Needs to Share and Prioritize Lessons Learned to Avoid Future Transition Delays. 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

McClimon M (2016) A transformational approach to jazz harmony. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Wagner J (2017) Mets Start Spring as Big Spenders, and Carrying an Outfield Surplus. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Bouwens and Illingworth 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bouwens and Illingworth 2006)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Mar. Biotechnol. (NY)
ISSN (print)	1436-2228
ISSN (online)	1436-2236
Scope	Aquatic Science Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology