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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Reichhardt, T., 2001. Airborne telescope delayed as plane is made ready. Nature 411, 729.
A journal article with 2 authors
Wang, T., Overgaard, J., 2007. Ecology. The heartbreak of adapting to global warming. Science 315, 49–50.
A journal article with 3 authors
Palikaras, K., Lionaki, E., Tavernarakis, N., 2015. Coordination of mitophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis during ageing in C. elegans. Nature 521, 525–528.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Okada, Y., Scott, G., Ray, M.K., Mishina, Y., Zhang, Y., 2007. Histone demethylase JHDM2A is critical for Tnp1 and Prm1 transcription and spermatogenesis. Nature 450, 119–123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Ham, B.M., 2011. Proteomics of Biological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Seidl, C., 2013. Tax Progression in OECD Countries: An Integrative Analysis of Tax Schedules and Income Distributions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Parzelski, D., Nowak, A., 2013. The Dynamics of Patterns of Commitment in Sports, in: Nowak, A., Winkowska-Nowak, K., Brée, D. (Eds.), Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–92.

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
Hamilton, K., 2017. Something Big Exploded In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: What Was It? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/something-big-exploded-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-what-was-it/ (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, 2000. Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection (No. AIMD-00-90R). 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
Wiggins, B.B., 2017. Using Induced Signals to Develop a Position-Sensitive Microchannel Plate Detector (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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
Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt, 2001; Wang and Overgaard, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Wang and Overgaard, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Okada et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleMarine Chemistry
AbbreviationMar. Chem.
ISSN (print)0304-4203
ScopeGeneral Chemistry
Oceanography
Environmental Chemistry
Water Science and Technology

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