How to format your references using the Deep-Sea Research Part II citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Deep-Sea Research Part II. 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

Betts, R.A., 2000. Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo. Nature 408, 187–190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brosi, B.J., Biber, E.G.N., 2012. Conservation. Citizen involvement in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Science 337, 802–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, B.-S., Noda, S., Asano, T., 2003. Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science 300, 1537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, A.E., Slepchenko, B.M., Schaff, J.C., Loew, L.M., Macara, I.G., 2002. Systems analysis of Ran transport. Science 295, 488–491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia, L., 2011. Polymers in Industry from A-Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kraus, R., 2011. Phraseological Dictionary English - German: General Vocabulary in Technical and Scientific Texts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, H., Silva, E.A., Wang, Q., 2015. The Foundation for Agent-Based Modelling: Empirical Evidence of Creative Industries’ Interactions with Urban Land Use in Nanjing, in: Silva, E.A., Wang, Q. (Eds.), Creative Industries and Urban Spatial Structure: Agent-Based Modelling of the Dynamics in Nanjing, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–100.

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 Deep-Sea Research Part II.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. South African rhino poaching hits all-time high in 2013 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/south-african-rhino-poaching-hits-all-time-high-2013/ (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, 2004. Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD Efforts to Exchange Health Data Could Benefit from Improved Planning and Project Management (No. GAO-04-687). 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

Diaz Gonzalez, A.J., 2017. High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods (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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Federer and Nadal Have Never Met In New York, but Have Come Close. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Betts, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Betts, 2000; Brosi and Biber, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Brosi and Biber, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Deep-Sea Research Part II
Abbreviation	Deep Sea Res. Part 2 Top. Stud. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	0967-0645
Scope	Oceanography