How to format your references using the Marine Policy citation style

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

[1]

G. Thornton, Materials science. Watching nanoparticles grow, Science 300 (2003) 1378–1379.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Wardle, F. Yusef-Zadeh, Supernova remnant OH masers: signposts of cosmic collision, Science 296 (2002) 2350–2354.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Hattori, M. Tomonaga, T. Matsuzawa, Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Garant, L.E.B. Kruuk, T.A. Wilkin, R.H. McCleery, B.C. Sheldon, Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population, Nature 433 (2005) 60–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. Minei, J. Lucek, MPLS-Enabled Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S.K. Saha, Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Flow Boiling in Microchannels, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q. Li, M.-H. Abel, J.-P.A. Barthès, Facilitating Collaboration and Information Retrieval: Collaborative Traces Based SWOT Analysis and Implications, in: C. Lai, A. Giuliani, G. Semeraro (Eds.), Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval: DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 65–78.

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 Policy.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Timelapse Shows A Wall Of Smog Descend On Beijing Within Minutes, IFLScience (2017).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Management and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars Need Attention, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Moon, The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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

[1]

A. Soloski, The Ethics of Telling Someone Else’s Story, New York Times (2015) C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Policy
Abbreviation	Mar. Policy
ISSN (print)	0308-597X
Scope	Aquatic Science Economics and Econometrics General Environmental Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Law