How to format your references using the Marine Ornithology citation style

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

CAO, Y.C. 2011. Materials science. Impurities enhance semiconductor nanocrystal performance. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332: 48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

JELLINEK, A.M. & MANGA, M. 2002. The influence of a chemical boundary layer on the fixity, spacing and lifetime of mantle plumes. Nature 418: 760–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

BLUNDY, J., CASHMAN, K. & HUMPHREYS, M. 2006. Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes. Nature 443: 76–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

SPILLANE, C., SCHMID, K.J., LAOUEILLÉ-DUPRAT, S., et al. 2007. Positive darwinian selection at the imprinted MEDEA locus in plants. Nature 448: 349–352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

BECKER, K. & RAUTENSTRAUCH, K. 2012. Ingenieurholzbau nach Eurocode 5: Konstruktion, Berechnung, Ausführung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

NARHI, L.O. ed 2013. Biophysics for Therapeutic Protein Development. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

KUSAKABE, T., IRYO, T. & ASAKURA, Y. 2010. Data Mining for Traffic Flow Analysis: Visualization Approach. In: J. Barceló & M. Kuwahara (Eds.) Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. New York, NY: Springer

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 Ornithology.

Blog post

ANDREW, E. 2014. A star in our galactic neighbourhood just exploded! IFLScience.

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 1986. DOD Schools: Funding and Operating Alternatives for Education of Dependents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

GALAN, M. 2012. Educational practices to support homeless students. Doctoral dissertation. Malibu, CA: 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

LYALL, S. 2013. Three Beginnings, Reverse Chronology and A Novel That Starts Over in Every Chapter. New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cao 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jellinek & Manga 2002; Cao 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jellinek & Manga 2002)
Three or more authors: (Spillane et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Ornithology
ISSN (print)	1018-3337
ISSN (online)	2074-1235
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