How to format your references using the Marine Structures citation style

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

Goedert M. NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science 2015;349:1255555.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Thybo H, Nielsen CA. Magma-compensated crustal thinning in continental rift zones. Nature 2009;457:873–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Daw R, Finkelstein J, Helmer M. Chemistry and energy. Nature 2012;488:293.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gorelli FA, Bryk T, Krisch M, Ruocco G, Santoro M, Scopigno T. Dynamics and Thermodynamics beyond the critical point. Sci Rep 2013;3:1203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fjeld RA, Eisenberg NA, Compton KL. Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Bouguettaya A, Sheng QZ, Daniel F, editors. Web Services Foundations. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boden F, Lanari C, Torres A, Weikert T. In-Flight IPCT Wing Deformation Measurements on a Small Aircraft. In: Boden F, Lawson N, Jentink HW, Kompenhans J, editors. Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 57–72.

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 Structures.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Incredible New Images Of Mars Are So High-Res, You Can See Beagle 2 On The Surface. IFLScience 2016.

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. Reclaim for Mileage and Relocation Expenses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chamoun A. Molecular characterization of a subset of KRAB-ZFPs. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2010.

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]

Walsh MW. Senate Republicans Introduce Bill for Relief of Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems. New York Times 2015:B4.

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 Structures
Abbreviation	Mar. Struct.
ISSN (print)	0951-8339
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ocean Engineering General Materials Science