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

Jeltsch, A., 2010. Molecular biology. Phylogeny of methylomes. Science 328, 837–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loayza, D., De Lange, T., 2003. POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control. Nature 423, 1013–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gadsby, D.C., Vergani, P., Csanády, L., 2006. The ABC protein turned chloride channel whose failure causes cystic fibrosis. Nature 440, 477–483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miranda, L.F., Gómez, Y., Anglada, G., Torrelles, J.M., 2001. Water-maser emission from a planetary nebula with a magnetized torus. Nature 414, 284–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulinkovich, O.G., 2015. Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mohamad Zain, J., Wan Mohd, W.M. bt, El-Qawasmeh, E. (Eds.), 2011. Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zoitl, A., Kainz, G., Keddis, N., 2013. Production Plan-Driven Flexible Assembly Automation Architecture, in: Mařík, V., Lastra, J.L.M., Skobelev, P. (Eds.), Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: 6th International Conference, HoloMAS 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-28, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–58.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Planet Earth II Stuns Viewers With A Jaguar Versus Caiman Clash [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/planet-earth-ii-stuns-viewers-with-a-jaguar-versus-caiman-clash/ (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, 1994. Early Childhood Programs: Multiple Programs and Overlapping Target Groups (No. HEHS-95-4FS). 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

Kopaygorodsky, E., 2001. Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Collins-Hughes, L., 2017. The God of Wine’s Grand Plan in the Garden State. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jeltsch, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jeltsch, 2010; Loayza and De Lange, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Loayza and De Lange, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Miranda et al., 2001)

About the journal

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