How to format your references using the Marine Geology citation style

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

Zupanc, G.K.H., 2006. Obituary: Theodore H. Bullock (1915-2005). Nature 439, 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holme, R., de Viron, O., 2013. Characterization and implications of intradecadal variations in length of day. Nature 499, 202–204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Standen, E.M., Du, T.Y., Larsson, H.C.E., 2014. Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods. Nature 513, 54–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yip, C.K., Kimbrough, T.G., Felise, H.B., Vuckovic, M., Thomas, N.A., Pfuetzner, R.A., Frey, E.A., Finlay, B.B., Miller, S.I., Strynadka, N.C.J., 2005. Structural characterization of the molecular platform for type III secretion system assembly. Nature 435, 702–707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laursen, G.H.N., Thorlund, J., 2016. Business Analytics for Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Li, F., Li, G., Hwang, S.-W., Yao, B., Zhang, Z. (Eds.), 2014. Web-Age Information Management: 15th International Conference, WAIM 2014, Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzalez-Gallardo, S., Prabusankar, G., Cadenbach, T., Gemel, C., von Hopffgarten, M., Frenking, G., Fischer, R.A., 2010. Structure and Bonding of Metal-Rich Coordination Compounds Containing Low Valent Ga(I) and Zn(I) Ligands, in: Parkin, G. (Ed.), Metal-Metal Bonding, Structure and Bonding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 147–188.

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 Geology.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Hidden Scars On Brains Of Military Personnel Could Explain How Bomb Shockwaves Damage Cognition [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, 1999. Reported Y2K Status of the 21 Largest U.S. Cities (No. AIMD-99-246R). 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

Kennedy, K.T., 2016. A Heuristic Study of Religious Spirituality and Meaningful Work (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Anderson, J., 2017. Family Pain, Rendered in Dazzling Color. New York Times AR15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zupanc, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Holme and de Viron, 2013; Zupanc, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Holme and de Viron, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yip et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Geology
Abbreviation	Mar. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0025-3227
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geology Oceanography