How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 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

Greer, J.R., 2014. Chemistry. Nanoframe catalysts. Science 343, 1319–1320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Webster, R., Hulse, D., 2005. Controlling avian flu at the source. Nature 435, 415–416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truog, R.D., Kesselheim, A.S., Joffe, S., 2012. Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science 337, 37–38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ge, W.-P., Yang, X.-J., Zhang, Z., Wang, H.-K., Shen, W., Deng, Q.-D., Duan, S., 2006. Long-term potentiation of neuron-glia synapses mediated by Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors. Science 312, 1533–1537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, R., 2010. Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Garcia, E., 2014. Model-Based Control of Networked Systems, Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Forzati, M., Chen, J., Kantor, M., Lannoo, B., Larsen, C.P., Mattsson, C., Mitcsenkov, A., Parca, G., Pereira, E., Pinto, A., Teixeira, A., Wosinska, L., Zuhdi, M., 2012. Economics of Next-Generation Networks, in: Teixeira, A., Tosi Beleffi, G.M. (Eds.), Optical Transmission: The FP7 BONE Project Experience, Signals and Communication Technology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 235–274.

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 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Languages “Lost” In Infancy Discovered In The Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/languages-lost-infancy-discovered-brain/ (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, 2007. Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Competition Issues (No. GAO-07-1245T). 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

Rodriguez, S.G., 2010. Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dynarski, S., 2017. With a Crucial Tool Disabled, Financial Aid Applications Get Harder. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Greer, 2014; Webster and Hulse, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Webster and Hulse, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ge et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0981
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics