How to format your references using the Marine Genomics citation style

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

Shalala, D.E., 2011. Retrospective. Bernadine Healy (1944-2011). Science 333, 1836.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kanematsu, Y., Takahashi, K., 2007. Employing Japan’s postdocs. Nature 447, 1028.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuch, R., Nelson, D., Fischetti, V.A., 2002. A bacteriolytic agent that detects and kills Bacillus anthracis. Nature 418, 884–889.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mizutani, A., Tamaki, K., Ikuta, R., Yamamoto, T., Imoto, N., 2014. Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution for Scarani-Acin-Ribordy-Gisin 04 protocol. Sci. Rep. 4, 5236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, D.S., 2012. Why Plato Wrote. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (Eds.), 2010. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Govorov, A., Hernández Martínez, P.L., Demir, H.V., 2016. Background Theory, in: Hernández Martínez, P.L., Demir, H.V. (Eds.), Understanding and Modeling Förster-Type Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET): Introduction to FRET, Vol. 1, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore, pp. 29–40.

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 Genomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. 10 Weirdest Species of Shark [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/10-weirdest-species-shark/ (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, 1987. Compensatory Education: Chapter 1 Services Provided to Private Sectarian School Students (No. HRD-87-128BR). 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

Warren, P.D., 2012. Characterizing polymers for cardiovascular devices (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Grippe, J., 2017. A Goal-Oriented Mother’s 2 Forbidden Words: ‘I Can’t.’ New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shalala, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kanematsu and Takahashi, 2007; Shalala, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kanematsu and Takahashi, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mizutani et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Genomics
Abbreviation	Mar. Genomics
ISSN (print)	1874-7787
Scope	Aquatic Science Genetics