How to format your references using the Marine Drugs citation style

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

Bell, S.P. DNA Replication. Terminating the Replisome. Science 2014, 346, 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Noia, J.; Neuberger, M.S. Altering the Pathway of Immunoglobulin Hypermutation by Inhibiting Uracil-DNA Glycosylase. Nature 2002, 419, 43–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wen, J.; Zhou, S.; Chen, J. Colorimetric Detection of Shewanella Oneidensis Based on Immunomagnetic Capture and Bacterial Intrinsic Peroxidase Activity. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krümmel, E.M.; Macdonald, R.W.; Kimpe, L.E.; Gregory-Eaves, I.; Demers, M.J.; Smol, J.P.; Finney, B.; Blais, J.M. Aquatic Ecology: Delivery of Pollutants by Spawning Salmon. Nature 2003, 425, 255–256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J.J.; Brantley, W.; Phillips, P.P. Project Management ROI; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118122587.

An edited book

Laser-Assisted Fabrication of Materials; Majumdar, J.D., Manna, I., Eds.; Springer Series in Materials Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 161; ISBN 9783642283581.

A chapter in an edited book

Danylenko, A. Iazychie and Surzhyk: Mixing Languages and Identities in the Ukrainian Borderlands. In The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders; Kamusella, T., Nomachi, M., Gibson, C., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; pp. 81–100 ISBN 9781349577033.

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 Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Incredible Visualization of European Air Traffic Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/incredible-visualization-european-air-traffic/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Results Act: Observations on NASA’s May 1997 Draft Strategic Plan; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nichols, J. Genetic and Genomic Mechanisms of Neonatal Hyperoxic Lung Injury in the Inbred Mouse. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 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

Kelly, M. Ideology Seems to Doom Cabinet Contender. New York Times 1992, B20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Drugs
Abbreviation	Mar. Drugs
ISSN (online)	1660-3397
Scope	Drug Discovery