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

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

Abele D (2002) Toxic oxygen: the radical life-giver. Nature 420:27

A journal article with 2 authors

Miniati F, Beresnyak A (2015) Self-similar energetics in large clusters of galaxies. Nature 523:59–62

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrie RJ, Koo H, Yamada KM (2014) Generation of compartmentalized pressure by a nuclear piston governs cell motility in a 3D matrix. Science 345:1062–1065

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee I, Date SV, Adai AT, Marcotte EM (2004) A probabilistic functional network of yeast genes. Science 306:1555–1558

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz W (2016) Species Conservation in Managed Habitats. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Mehlhorn H (2012) Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mitchell B (2005) Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Environmental Management and Quality of Life? In: Shek DTL, Chan YK, Lee PSN (eds) Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 123–144

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 Technology.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Scientists Call For A Ban On Microbeads. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-call-ban-microbeads/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2000) Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina. 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

Hogg JH (2014) An assessment of social vulnerability in Yuba County, California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Higgins A, Kramer AE (2017) The Soviet Union Died, but Russia’s Use of Sexual Blackmail Lives On. New York Times A20

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 Technology
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0948-4280
ISSN (online)	1437-8213
Scope	Oceanography Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ocean Engineering