How to format your references using the Journal of Marine Systems citation style

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

Juergens, N., 2013. The biological underpinnings of Namib Desert fairy circles. Science 339, 1618–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Francesco, R., Migliaccio, G., 2005. Challenges and successes in developing new therapies for hepatitis C. Nature 436, 953–960.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buehler, M.J., Abraham, F.F., Gao, H., 2003. Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature 426, 141–146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cortázar, D., Kunz, C., Selfridge, J., Lettieri, T., Saito, Y., MacDougall, E., Wirz, A., Schuermann, D., Jacobs, A.L., Siegrist, F., Steinacher, R., Jiricny, J., Bird, A., Schär, P., 2011. Embryonic lethal phenotype reveals a function of TDG in maintaining epigenetic stability. Nature 470, 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W.C., 2016. Resistivity Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chrisler, J.C., McCreary, D.R. (Eds.), 2010. Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology: Volume 2: Gender Research in Social and Applied Psychology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Monti, J.M., Monti, D., 2008. Human Sleep, in: Verster, J.C., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Streiner, D.L. (Eds.), Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 29–36.

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 Systems.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Mars Is Still Losing Water But Not Continuously [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2001. Pipeline Safety Fund: Minimum Balance Was Not Reasonably Estimated (No. GAO-01-523). 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

Chapple, C.M., 2015. A: Application of Polymeric Quaternary Ammonium Surfactant Clay Intercalates in Triphase Catalysis B: Effect of Various Compatibilizers in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Olmsted, S.A., 1935. CITY REPORTS.; A Record of Their Appearance and of Comments Upon Them. New York Times BOOKS16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Juergens, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (De Francesco and Migliaccio, 2005; Juergens, 2013).

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

Two authors: (De Francesco and Migliaccio, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Cortázar et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Marine Systems
Abbreviation	J. Mar. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0924-7963
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography