How to format your references using the Marine Pollution Bulletin citation style

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

Caruana, C., 2005. An eastern promise of regeneration. Nature 435, 998–999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardle, D.A., Lindahl, B.D., 2014. Ecology. Disentangling global soil fungal diversity. Science 346, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altizer, S., Bartel, R., Han, B.A., 2011. Animal migration and infectious disease risk. Science 331, 296–302.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zebker, H.A., Stiles, B., Hensley, S., Lorenz, R., Kirk, R.L., Lunine, J., 2009. Size and shape of Saturn’s moon Titan. Science 324, 921–923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva, Z., 2017. Nano- and Biomaterials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Poo, D., 2008. Object-Oriented Programming and Java, Second edition. ed. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Popov, V.N., 2015. Feedback Loop of Non-coupled Respiration and Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Plant Mitochondria, in: Gupta, K.J., Igamberdiev, A.U. (Eds.), Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Signaling and Communication in Plants, Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–88.

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 Pollution Bulletin.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. China Successfully Completes Mission To The Moon And Back [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-successfully-gets-moon-and-back-just-8-days/ (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, 1971. Examination Into the Manner in Which the Office of Education Is Administering the Teacher Corps Program (No. 093028). 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

Dooling, S.M., 2013. Like A Unicorn in Captivity (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hartocollis, A., 2014. At Hospital, Its Ex-C.E.O. Finds Lucrative Work. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caruana, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Caruana, 2005; Wardle and Lindahl, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wardle and Lindahl, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zebker et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Abbreviation	Mar. Pollut. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0025-326X
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography Pollution