How to format your references using the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 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

Cyranoski, D. China: From SARS to the Stars. Nature 2003, 426, 752–753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gutierrez, M.P.; Lee, L.P. Engineering. Multiscale Design and Integration of Sustainable Building Functions. Science 2013, 341, 247–248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nabel, G.J.; Wolinsky, S.M.; Haynes, B.F. Retrospective. Norman L. Letvin (1949-2012). Science 2012, 336, 1653.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, J.H.; Banks, A.S.; Estall, J.L.; Kajimura, S.; Boström, P.; Laznik, D.; Ruas, J.L.; Chalmers, M.J.; Kamenecka, T.M.; Blüher, M.; et al. Anti-Diabetic Drugs Inhibit Obesity-Linked Phosphorylation of PPARgamma by Cdk5. Nature 2010, 466, 451–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rombach, G. Spannbetonbau; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH: D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2010; ISBN 9783433600573.

An edited book

Cardio-Renal Clinical Challenges; Goldsmith, D., Covic, A., Spaak, J., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319091617.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuzzocrea, A.; De Coi, J.L.; Fisichella, M.; Skoutas, D. Graph-Based Matching of Composite OWL-S Services. In Database Systems for Adanced Applications: 16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011, International Workshops: GDB, SIM3, FlashDB, SNSMW, DaMEN, DQIS, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011. Proceedings; Xu, J., Yu, G., Zhou, S., Unland, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 28–39 ISBN 9783642202438.

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 Marine Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Fang, J. City Birds Have Shorter Telomeres (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bermudez, D. The Effects of Hispanic Parent-Adolescent Biculturalism Disparity on Male Adolescent Delinquency. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2008.

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

Crow, K. Not on My Sidewalk: The Battle Over Street Trees. New York Times 2002, 145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (online)	2077-1312
Scope