How to format your references using the Journal of Sea Research citation style

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

Bynum, W., 2012. Nobel success: What makes a great lab? Nature 490, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allsop, D.J., West, S.A., 2003. Life history: changing sex at the same relative body size. Nature 425, 783–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan, Z.W., Dai, Z.R., Wang, Z.L., 2001. Nanobelts of semiconducting oxides. Science 291, 1947–1949.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Holden, L.G., Prochnow, C., Chang, Y.P., Bransteitter, R., Chelico, L., Sen, U., Stevens, R.C., Goodman, M.F., Chen, X.S., 2008. Crystal structure of the anti-viral APOBEC3G catalytic domain and functional implications. Nature 456, 121–124.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Funk, W., Dammann, V., Donnevert, G., Ianelli, S., Ianelli, E., Gray, A., 2006. Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Klepaczko, J.R., Łodygowski, T. (Eds.), 2009. Advances in Constitutive Relations Applied in Computer Codes, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Mulser, P., Bauer, D., 2010. The Ponderomotive Force and Nonresonant Effects, in: Bauer, D. (Ed.), High Power Laser-Matter Interaction, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 193–227.

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 Sea Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. How To Watch The Lyrid Meteor Shower On Wednesday Night [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-lyrid-meteor-shower-wednesday-night/ (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, 2016. Vehicle Safety: Enhanced Project Management of New Information Technology Could Help Improve NHTSA’s Oversight of Safety Defects (No. GAO-16-312). 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

Gatti, D.M., 2010. Genome-wide analysis of transcriptional regulation in the murine liver (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. A Storyteller’s Private Dystopias. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bynum, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Allsop and West, 2003; Bynum, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Allsop and West, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Holden et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sea Research
Abbreviation	J. Sea Res.
ISSN (print)	1385-1101
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography