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

Ramirez, A., 2015. The making of a science evangelist. Science 348, 726.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaw, A.S., Huang, Y., 2010. Immunology. CAR’ing for the skin. Science 329, 1154–1155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Percec, V., Ungar, G., Peterca, M., 2006. Chemistry. Self-assembly in action. Science 313, 55–56.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sikora, D., Rocheleau, L., Brown, E.G., Pelchat, M., 2014. Deep sequencing reveals the eight facets of the influenza A/HongKong/1/1968 (H3N2) virus cap-snatching process. Sci. Rep. 4, 6181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci, E., Rong, C., 2009. Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Franco-Paredes, C., Santos-Preciado, J.I. (Eds.), 2015. Neglected Tropical Diseases - Latin America and the Caribbean, Neglected Tropical Diseases. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Z., Zhu, H., Abbott, A., 2015. Dormancy Behaviors and Underlying Regulatory Mechanisms: From Perspective of Pathways to Epigenetic Regulation, in: Anderson, J.V. (Ed.), Advances in Plant Dormancy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–105.

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, D., 2015. Why The Hell Is This Pig’s Flesh Bright Blue?! [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, 1978. The Congress Should Clearly Define the National Weather Service’s Role To Provide Specialized Weather Services (No. CED-78-77). 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

Mackay, E.A., 2009. Title I funding allocation of reserve funds after increased standards for academic proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Williams, J., 2017. Poets to Discover. New York Times BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ramirez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ramirez, 2015; Shaw and Huang, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shaw and Huang, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sikora et al., 2014)

About the journal

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