How to format your references using the Marine Biodiversity Records citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Biodiversity Records. 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

Reipurth B. George Herbig (1920-2013). Nature. 2013 Nov 28;503(7477):470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ketov SV, Louzguine-Luzgin DV. Localized shear deformation and softening of bulk metallic glass: stress or temperature driven? Sci. Rep. 2013 Oct 8;3:2798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polikanov YS, Blaha GM, Steitz TA. How hibernation factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA turn off protein synthesis. Science. 2012 May 18;336(6083):915–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kocot KM, Cannon JT, Todt C, Citarella MR, Kohn AB, Meyer A, et al. Phylogenomics reveals deep molluscan relationships. Nature. 2011 Sep 4;477(7365):452–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad WM, Curran JM. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Swoboda B, Morschett D, Rudolph T, Schnedlitz P, Schramm-Klein H, editors. European Retail Research. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Colombo J, Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI. Validation and General Evaluation of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Monitoring. In: Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI, editors. Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction: Measurement, Indications, Therapies, and Outcomes. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 55–76.

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 Marine Biodiversity Records.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Nobel Prize-Winning Autophagy Research Laid Groundwork For Potential Parkinson’s Treatment [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nobel-prize-winning-autophagy-research-laid-groundwork-for-potential-parkinsons-treatment/

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. NASA: Constellation Program Cost and Schedule Will Remain Uncertain Until a Sound Business Case Is Established. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Aug. Report No.: GAO-09-844.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards JW. The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Kenigsberg B. Review: In ‘Southwest of Salem,’ 4 Women Convicted of Sexual Assault Fight for Justice. New York Times. 2016 Sep 15;C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reipurth 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ketov and Louzguine-Luzgin 2013; Reipurth 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ketov and Louzguine-Luzgin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kocot et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Biodiversity Records
Abbreviation	Mar. Biodivers. Rec.
ISSN (online)	1755-2672
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Ecology