How to format your references using the Marine Pollution Bulletin citation style

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

Pielke, R.A., Jr, 2005. Meteorology: are there trends in hurricane destruction? Nature 438, E11; discussion E13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla, Y.R., Ha, T., 2014. Biophysics. Ultraslow relaxation of confined DNA. Science 345, 380–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ho, B.T., Basler, M., Mekalanos, J.J., 2013. Type 6 secretion system-mediated immunity to type 4 secretion system-mediated gene transfer. Science 342, 250–253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Solomonov, I., Talmi-Frank, D., Milstein, Y., Addadi, S., Aloshin, A., Sagi, I., 2014. Introduction of correlative light and airSEM^TM microscopy imaging for tissue research under ambient conditions. Sci. Rep. 4, 5987.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu, L.-Y., Wang, W., 2017. Microfluidics for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Ball, T., Jones, R.B. (Eds.), 2006. Computer Aided Verification: 18th International Conference, CAV 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-20, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedamallu, C.S., Özdamar, L., Csendes, T., 2007. An Interval Partitioning Approach for Continuous Constrained Optimization, in: Törn, A., Žilinskas, J. (Eds.), Models and Algorithms for Global Optimization: Essays Dedicated to Antanas Žilinskas on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Optimization and Its Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 73–96.

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 Pollution Bulletin.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. This 3D Map Of 1.2 Million Galaxies Could Unlock The Secrets of Dark Energy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance Professionals (No. GAO-14-237). 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

Ramirez, C., 2014. Perceived efficacy of the O*NET Skills Search Tool among individuals with high functioning autism (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE TRANSITION: The President-Elect; Despite Some Signs of Recovery, Clinton Points to Economic Perils. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chemla and Ha, 2014; Pielke, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chemla and Ha, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Solomonov et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Abbreviation	Mar. Pollut. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0025-326X
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography Pollution