How to format your references using the Bulletin of Marine Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Teich AH. 2000. Data for an election year. Science (New York, N.Y.) 289: 1878b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander JM, Amsen D. 2009. Immunology. Amino acid addiction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 1282–1283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gleiche M, Chi LF, Fuchs H. 2000. Nanoscopic channel lattices with controlled anisotropic wetting. Nature 403: 173–175.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Theobald JA, Oxtoby NS, Phillips MA, Champness NR, Beton PH. 2003. Controlling molecular deposition and layer structure with supramolecular surface assemblies. Nature 424: 1029–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanclef J. 2013. The Wealth Code 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

2016. Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology: Laser Sources and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckmann D. 2011. Non-local Transport in Superconductor–Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures. In: A Sidorenko, editor. Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 101–116.

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 Bulletin of Marine Science.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016. [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/in-a-bid-for-the-perfect-profile-pic-young-men-are-increasingly-turning-to-steroids/

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. 1979. Authority To Waive Claims by District of Columbia Against Employee or Former Employee. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones DM. 2010. Educational paradigm shift: Emergence of the virtual classroom. University of Phoenix.

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

Maslin J. 2017. There’s a New Detective in Town, and She’s Fierce. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Teich 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Teich 2000, Blander and Amsen 2009).

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

Two authors: (Blander and Amsen 2009)
Three or more authors: (Theobald et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Marine Science
Abbreviation	Bull. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0007-4977
ISSN (online)	1553-6955
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography