How to format your references using the Continental Shelf Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Continental Shelf Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Crabtree, R.H., 2007. Chemistry. No protection required. Science 318, 756–757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Libuda, D.E., Winston, F., 2006. Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 443, 1003–1007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, B., Wang, Q., Tian, Y., 2013. Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals. Sci. Rep. 3, 3068.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Calvert, P.D., Govardovskii, V.I., Krasnoperova, N., Anderson, R.E., Lem, J., Makino, C.L., 2001. Membrane protein diffusion sets the speed of rod phototransduction. Nature 411, 90–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, W., 2015. Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

D’Août, K., Vereecke, E.E. (Eds.), 2011. Primate Locomotion: Linking Field and Laboratory Research, Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Schomburg, H., Teichler, U., 2006. COURSE OF STUDY, in: Teichler, U. (Ed.), Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Europe: Results from Graduate Surveys from Twelve Countries, Higher Education Dynamics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 35–50.

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 Continental Shelf Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. US Imports Of Oil From The Amazon Are Rising [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-imports-of-oil-from-the-amazon-are-rising/ (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, 2011. Surface Freight Transportation: A Comparison of the Costs of Road, Rail, and Waterways Freight Shipments That Are Not Passed on to Consumers (No. GAO-11-134). 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

Irving, A.V., 2017. Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Hodara, S., 2015. Contrasting Art and Creating Dialogue. New York Times CT10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crabtree, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Crabtree, 2007; Libuda and Winston, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Libuda and Winston, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Calvert et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Continental Shelf Research
Abbreviation	Cont. Shelf Res.
ISSN (print)	0278-4343
Scope	Aquatic Science Geology Oceanography