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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Geophysical 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

van Swinderen B (2007) Attention-like processes in Drosophila require short-term memory genes. Science 315:1590–1593

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung ACM, Cramer P (2011) Structural basis of RNA polymerase II backtracking, arrest and reactivation. Nature 471:249–253

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakoshi H, Wang H, Yasuda R (2011) Local, persistent activation of Rho GTPases during plasticity of single dendritic spines. Nature 472:100–104

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jones RB, Gordus A, Krall JA, MacBeath G (2006) A quantitative protein interaction network for the ErbB receptors using protein microarrays. Nature 439:168–174

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell J (2009) Mac® Security Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Guillet F, Ritschard G, Zighed DA (eds) (2012) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management: Volume 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mi W, Laher R, Surace J, et al (2013) The Palomar Transient Factory Data Archive. In: Madaan A, Kikuchi S, Bhalla S (eds) Databases in Networked Information Systems: 8th International Workshop, DNIS 2013, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 25-27, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–70

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 Geophysical Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Study Suggests Population Control Is No Quick Fix For Environmental Problems. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/study-suggests-population-control-no-quick-fix-environmental-problems/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Drug Abuse: Research on Treatment May Not Address Current Needs. 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

Beverley D (2014) Golf as a tool for executive leadership development. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Waldstein D, Rothenberg B (2016) They Built a Roof. It Got Loud. Now What? New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Swinderen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (van Swinderen 2007; Cheung and Cramer 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cheung and Cramer 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Geophysical Research
Abbreviation	Mar. Geophys. Res.
ISSN (print)	0025-3235
ISSN (online)	1573-0581
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics Oceanography