How to format your references using the Marine Chemistry citation style

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

Fekete, D.M., 2003. Developmental biology. Rocks that roll zebrafish. Science 302, 241–242.

A journal article with 2 authors

Law, K.L., Thompson, R.C., 2014. Oceans. Microplastics in the seas. Science 345, 144–145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ilonidis, S., Zhao, J., Kosovichev, A., 2011. Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior. Science 333, 993–996.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Purahong, W., Schloter, M., Pecyna, M.J., Kapturska, D., Däumlich, V., Mital, S., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Gutknecht, J.L.M., Krüger, D., 2014. Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe. Sci. Rep. 4, 7014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zecchina, A., Califano, S., 2017. The Development of Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Greenberg, C., Collins, B., Thompson, F., III (Eds.), 2011. Sustaining Young Forest Communities: Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA, Managing Forest Ecosystems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Arzarello, F., Dané, C., Lovera, L., Mosca, M., Nolli, N., Ronco, A., 2012. Geometria sul cono, in: Dané, C., Lovera, L., Mosca, M., Nolli, N., Ronco, A. (Eds.), Dalla Geometria Di Euclide Alla Geometria Dell’Universo: Geometria Su Sfera, Cilindro, Cono, Pseudosfera. Springer, Milano, pp. 69–88.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Faster-Than-Light Travel: Are We There Yet? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1984. New Directions for Federal Programs To Aid Mathematics and Science Teaching (No. PEMD-84-5). 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

Brown, J.T., 2010. Evaluation of a social science simulation by uncertainty analysis and comparison (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hollander, S., 2009. The Bus-Stop Guessing Game. New York Times CY5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fekete, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fekete, 2003; Law and Thompson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Law and Thompson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Purahong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Chemistry
Abbreviation	Mar. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0304-4203
Scope	General Chemistry Oceanography Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology