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]

C.H. Scholz, A fault in the “weak San Andreas” theory, Nature 406 (2000) 234.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.M. Flowers, K.A. Farley, Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon, Science 338 (2012) 1616–1619.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Kessler, R. Halitschke, I.T. Baldwin, Silencing the jasmonate cascade: induced plant defenses and insect populations, Science 305 (2004) 665–668.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Yokoya, T. Nakamura, T. Matsushita, T. Muro, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, T. Oguchi, Origin of the metallic properties of heavily boron-doped superconducting diamond, Nature 438 (2005) 647–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Hunt-Ahmed, Contemporary Islamic Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Lee, ed., Computers,Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Battin-Leclerc, H. Curran, T. Faravelli, P.A. Glaude, Specificities Related to Detailed Kinetic Models for the Combustion of Oxygenated Fuels Components, in: F. Battin-Leclerc, J.M. Simmie, E. Blurock (Eds.), Cleaner Combustion: Developing Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 93–109.

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]

E. Andrew, Seven Myths About Scientists Debunked, IFLScience (2015).

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, Social Security Student Benefits for Postsecondary Students Should Be Discontinued, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Z. Taaz, Boiler automation and monitoring of temperature and steam flow using Simulink, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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. Tabarrok, S. Rajagopalan, Private Cities, Open to All, New York Times (2015) A25.

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