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

Gingrich, N., 2000. SCIENCE PRIORITIES: An Opportunities-Based Science Budget. Science 290, 1303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillon, J., Yakir, D., 2001. Influence of carbonic anhydrase activity in terrestrial vegetation on the 18O content of atmospheric CO2. Science 291, 2584–2587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heierli, J., Gumbsch, P., Zaiser, M., 2008. Anticrack nucleation as triggering mechanism for snow slab avalanches. Science 321, 240–243.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sang, H., Jarvis, S.P., Zhou, Z., Sharp, P., Moriarty, P., Wang, J., Wang, Y., Kantorovich, L., 2014. Identifying tips for intramolecular NC-AFM imaging via in situ fingerprinting. Sci. Rep. 4, 6678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McSween, T.E., 2005. Values-Based Safety Process. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bougé, L., Forsell, M., Träff, J.L., Streit, A., Ziegler, W., Alexander, M., Childs, S. (Eds.), 2008. Euro-Par 2007 Workshops: Parallel Processing: HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Breu, J., Menth, M., 2014. An Improved Relevance Estimation Function for Cooperative Awareness Messages in VANETs, in: Sikora, A., Berbineau, M., Vinel, A., Jonsson, M., Pirovano, A., Aguado, M. (Eds.), Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 6th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–56.

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., 2014. Plans For A Futuristic, Atlantis-Style Underwater City Unveiled [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/plans-futuristic-atlantis-style-underwater-city-unveiled/ (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, 2002. Space Station: Actions Under Way to Manage Cost, but Significant Challenges Remain (No. GAO-02-735). 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

Pepper, I., 2010. On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Johnson, G., 2016. Scientists Ponder Contagious Cancer. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingrich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gillon and Yakir, 2001; Gingrich, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Gillon and Yakir, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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