How to format your references using the Marine Environmental Research citation style

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

Jayaraman, K.S., 2000. Funding crisis for Indian biotech centre. Nature 403, 694.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deplancke, B., Verstrepen, K.J., 2012. Genetics. Variable outcome of mutations. Science 335, 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Surdutovich, E., Yakubovich, A.V., Solov’yov, A.V., 2013. Biodamage via shock waves initiated by irradiation with ions. Sci. Rep. 3, 1289.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Horie, S., Robbie, S.J., Liu, J., Wu, W.-K., Ali, R.R., Bainbridge, J.W., Nicholson, L.B., Mochizuki, M., Dick, A.D., Copland, D.A., 2013. CD200R signaling inhibits pro-angiogenic gene expression by macrophages and suppresses choroidal neovascularization. Sci. Rep. 3, 3072.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balani, K., Verma, V., Agarwal, A., Narayan, R., 2014. Biosurfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Curwen, P., Haucap, J., Preissl, B. (Eds.), 2009. Telecommunication Markets: Drivers and Impediments, Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Du, S., Wu, W., Song, Y., Liu, X., Zheng, J., 2014. Superconducting Magnet, in: Wu, W., Du, S. (Eds.), Tokamak Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 159–201.

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 Environmental Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. HPV Vaccine Halves Cervical Cancer Rates In Just 10 Years [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, 1976. Opportunities to Improve Planning for Solar Energy Research and Development (No. EMD-77-8). 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

Nguyen, M.S., 2009. Solid families: Community-based program for pregnant and parenting adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. It’s That ’80s Show. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Deplancke and Verstrepen, 2012; Jayaraman, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Deplancke and Verstrepen, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Horie et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Environmental Research
Abbreviation	Mar. Environ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0141-1136
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography Pollution General Medicine