How to format your references using the Maritime Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Maritime Studies. 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

Lodders, Katharina. 2004. Astronomy. Brown dwarfs--faint at heart, rich in chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 323–324.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simons, Michael, and Anne Eichmann. 2013. Physiology. Lymphatics are in my veins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 622–624.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beldade, Patrícia, Paul M. Brakefield, and Anthony D. Long. 2002. Contribution of Distal-less to quantitative variation in butterfly eyespots. Nature 415: 315–318.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chierico, Luca, Adrian S. Joseph, Andrew L. Lewis, and Giuseppe Battaglia. 2014. Live cell imaging of membrane/cytoskeleton interactions and membrane topology. Scientific reports 4: 6056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, Jun, and Dacheng Tao. 2013. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Symons, John, Olga Pombo, and Juan Manuel Torres, ed. 2011. Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Vol. 18. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Andronikou, Savvas. 2012. White Matter Tracts. In See Right Through Me: An Imaging Anatomy Atlas, ed. Savvas Andronikou, 71–100. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Maritime Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Artificial Proteins Could Bring The Next Biological Revolution – Starting With MRI. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 13.

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. 1996. Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Overcome To Achieve Success. T-AIMD-96-75. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ji, Jae Hwan. 2010. Near-field characteristics of wall jets with tabs. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sexton, Linda Gray. 2009. A Tortured Inheritance. New York Times, April 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lodders 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lodders 2004; Simons and Eichmann 2013).

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

Two authors: (Simons and Eichmann 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chierico et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Maritime Studies
Abbreviation	Marit. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2212-9790
Scope	Aquatic Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology Development Geography, Planning and Development