How to format your references using the Regional Studies in Marine Science citation style

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

Wetherbee, R., 2002. Biomineralization. The diatom glasshouse. Science 298, 547.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nordborg, M., Weigel, D., 2008. Next-generation genetics in plants. Nature 456, 720–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dobson, D.P., Meredith, P.G., Boon, S.A., 2002. Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine. Science 298, 1407–1410.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, T., Kou, Z., Wu, H., Mu, S., 2014. Graphene from amorphous titanium carbide by chlorination under 200 °C and atmospheric pressures. Sci. Rep. 4, 5494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schütz, H., Wiedemann, P.M., Hennings, W., Mertens, J., Clauberg, M., 2006. Comparative Risk Assessment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Pelc, A. (Ed.), 2007. Distributed Computing: 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maggiorini, M., Bärtsch, P., Swenson, E.R., 2014. Pulmonary Circulation, in: Swenson, E.R., Bärtsch, P. (Eds.), High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 85–102.

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 Regional Studies in Marine Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. On The 120th Anniversary Of The X-Ray, A Look At How It Changed Our View Of The World [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, 1975. College Work-Study Program at the Bay College of Maryland (No. 089626). 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

Solorzano, E., 2014. A mindfulness-based psycho-educational group for caregivers of older adults: A grant proposal (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

Kinsley, M., 2017. The Faintest of Praise for the President. New York Times SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wetherbee, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nordborg and Weigel, 2008; Wetherbee, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nordborg and Weigel, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Peng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regional Studies in Marine Science
Abbreviation	Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2352-4855
Scope