How to format your references using the Marine Genomics citation style

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

Davis, M.M., 2015. Immunology. Flexibility for specificity. Science 347, 371–372.

A journal article with 2 authors

Radisky, D.C., Bissell, M.J., 2004. Cancer. Respect thy neighbor! Science 303, 775–777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos, F.C., Santos, M.D., Pacheco, J.M., 2008. Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Nature 454, 213–216.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Duan, X., Kim, T., Han, L., Ma, J., Du, X., Zheng, W., 2013. Formation of alumina nanocapsules by high-energy-electron irradiation of Na-dawsonite nanorods. Sci. Rep. 3, 3218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahamed, S.V., 2006. Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rath, A.K., Sahoo, N. (Eds.), 2016. Particle Radiotherapy: Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Reyes, M., Meza, I., Pineda, L.A., 2016. The Positive Effect of Negative Feedback in HRI Using a Facial Expression Robot, in: Koh, J.T.K.V., Dunstan, B.J., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M. (Eds.), Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 44–54.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. The Science Of Depression [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, 1991. Uncertainties Surrounding IRS’ Fiscal Year 1992 Budget Request for Tax System Modernization (No. T-IMTEC-91-4). 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

Platt, J.B., 2008. Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Neuman, W., 2015. Fleeing an Uncertain Future in Venezuela. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Davis, 2015; Radisky and Bissell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Radisky and Bissell, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Duan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Genomics
Abbreviation	Mar. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1874-7787
Scope	Aquatic Science Genetics