How to format your references using the Marine Turtle Newsletter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Turtle Newsletter (MTN). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

SWING, K. 2011. Day of Reckoning for Ecuador’s Biodiversity. Nature 469: 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

ROBBINS, D.W. & J.F. HARTWIG. 2011. A Simple, Multidimensional Approach to High-Throughput Discovery of Catalytic Reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1423–1427.

A journal article with 3 authors

ISHIKAWA, H., Z. MA & G.N. BARBER. 2009. STING Regulates Intracellular DNA-Mediated, Type I Interferon-Dependent Innate Immunity. Nature 461: 788–792.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

PÉREZ, Y., M. MAFFEI, A. IGEA, I. AMATA, M. GAIRÍ, A.R. NEBREDA, P. BERNADÓ & M. PONS. 2013. Lipid Binding by the Unique and SH3 Domains of C-Src Suggests a New Regulatory Mechanism. Scientific reports 3: 1295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

NAKHJIRI, M. & M. NAKHJIRI. 2006. AAA and Network Security for Mobile Access. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

BEYDEDA, S., M. BOOK & V. GRUHN (Eds.). 2005. Model-Driven Software Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XII, 464 p. 195 illusp.

A chapter in an edited book

BOSSOMAIER, T., L. BARNETT, M. HARRÉ & J.T. LIZIER. 2016. Information Transfer in Canonical Systems. In: L. Barnett, M. Harré, and J. T. Lizier (Eds.). An Introduction to Transfer Entropy: Information Flow in Complex Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 97–123.

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 Turtle Newsletter.

Blog post

ANDREWS, R. 2017. Website Claims To Be Able To Reveal Your Torrenting History To Anyone. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/website-claims-reveal-torrenting-history-anyone/ (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

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE. 2002. Export Control: Army Guidance on Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Compliance with Export Control Laws and Regulations. 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

SHACKELFORD, V. 2014. Mary’s Mandala Story: Images of Chaos in Mandala Psychology. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

VECSEY, G. 2010. Cameras, Action and Even Lights. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Swing 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Robbins & Hartwig 2011; Swing 2011).

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

Two authors: (Robbins & Hartwig 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pérez et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Turtle Newsletter
ISSN (online)	0839-7708
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