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]

T. Chapman, Easing the strain, Nature. 425 (2003) 869.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.B. Kelemen, G. Hirth, A periodic shear-heating mechanism for intermediate-depth earthquakes in the mantle, Nature. 446 (2007) 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Hillenbrand, T. Taubner, F. Keilmann, Phonon-enhanced light matter interaction at the nanometre scale, Nature. 418 (2002) 159–162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

U. Mock, K. Riecken, B. Berdien, W. Qasim, E. Chan, T. Cathomen, B. Fehse, Novel lentiviral vectors with mutated reverse transcriptase for mRNA delivery of TALE nucleases, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6409.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Zhao, Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

L.E. Pâques, ed., Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Trancón y Widemann, M. Lepper, Laminar Data Flow: On the Role of Slicing in Functional Data-Flow Programming, in: M. Serrano, J. Hage (Eds.), Trends in Functional Programming: 16th International Symposium, TFP 2015, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 3-5, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 85–103.

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, This Fish Hijacks Females Eggs And Clones Itself, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-fish-hijacks-females-eggs-and-clones-itself/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Batteries and Energy Storage: Federal Initiatives Supported Similar Technologies and Goals but Had Key Differences, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Heyen, Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

M. Pilon, No Nike Deal for Vaulter After He Puts Tape on Logo, New York Times. (2013) D3.

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

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