How to format your references using the Marine Drugs citation style

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

Marchand, A.P. Chemistry. Diamondoid Hydrocarbons--Delving into Nature’s Bounty. Science 2003, 299, 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zou, Z.; Buck, L.B. Combinatorial Effects of Odorant Mixes in Olfactory Cortex. Science 2006, 311, 1477–1481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katz, R.F.; Spiegelman, M.; Holtzman, B. The Dynamics of Melt and Shear Localization in Partially Molten Aggregates. Nature 2006, 442, 676–679.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jung, J.W.; Jeon, H.M.; Pyo, J.; Lim, J.-H.; Weon, B.M.; Kohmura, Y.; Ishikawa, T.; Je, J.H. Four-Dimensional Visualization of Rising Microbubbles. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5083.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Upreti, S.R. Process Modeling and Simulation for Chemical Engineers; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2017; ISBN 9781118914670.

An edited book

Ravindranath, N.H. Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects; Ostwald, M., Ed.; Advances in Global Change Research; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; Vol. 29; ISBN 9781402065460.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, W. FSK Modulation and Demodulation Analysis Based on Matlab. In Information and Business Intelligence: International Conference, IBI 2011, Chongqing, China, December 23-25, 2011. Proceedings, Part I; Qu, X., Yang, Y., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 26–32 ISBN 9783642290831.

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 Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Arms, Not Two (accessed on 30 October 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 Intelligent Transportation Systems: Improved DOT Collaboration and Communication Could Enhance the Use of Technology to Manage Congestion; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson, L.A. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support on Bullying. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

de la MERCED, M.J.; Benner, K. A Wardrobe by Mail. New York Times 2017, B1.

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	Marine Drugs
Abbreviation	Mar. Drugs
ISSN (online)	1660-3397
Scope	Drug Discovery