How to format your references using the Marine Chemistry citation style

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

McCune, J.M., 2001. The dynamics of CD4+ T-cell depletion in HIV disease. Nature 410, 974–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardle, D.A., Zackrisson, O., 2005. Effects of species and functional group loss on island ecosystem properties. Nature 435, 806–810.

A journal article with 3 authors

Swiontek, S.E., Pulsifer, D.P., Lakhtakia, A., 2013. Optical sensing of analytes in aqueous solutions with a multiple surface-plasmon-polariton-wave platform. Sci. Rep. 3, 1409.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tomita, S., Adesnik, H., Sekiguchi, M., Zhang, W., Wada, K., Howe, J.R., Nicoll, R.A., Bredt, D.S., 2005. Stargazin modulates AMPA receptor gating and trafficking by distinct domains. Nature 435, 1052–1058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fight, A., 2004. Understanding International Bank Risk. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bouabana-Tebibel, T., Rubin, S.H. (Eds.), 2015. Formalisms for Reuse and Systems Integration, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kosmaoglou, M., Novoselova, T.V., Cheetham, M.E., 2008. The Role of Chaperones and Co-Chaperones in Retinal Degenerative Diseases, in: Asea, A.A.A., Brown, I.R. (Eds.), Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 109–123.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Sony Is Trying To Patent A Contact Lens That Can Record And Play Video At The Blink Of An Eye [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sony-wants-patent-smart-contact-lens/ (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, 2002. Relocation of Space Shuttle Major Modification Work (No. GAO-03-294R). 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

Payan Venegas, R., 2012. Factors associated with the lack of a regular health care provider for Latinos: Consequences and reasons (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCune, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (McCune, 2001; Wardle and Zackrisson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wardle and Zackrisson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tomita et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Chemistry
Abbreviation	Mar. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0304-4203
Scope	General Chemistry Oceanography Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology