How to format your references using the Marine Turtle Newsletter citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Turtle Newsletter (MTN). 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

FUKATSU, T. 2010. Evolution. A Fungal Past to Insect Color. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 574–575.

A journal article with 2 authors

MARGULES, C.R. & R.L. PRESSEY. 2000. Systematic Conservation Planning. Nature 405: 243–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

LACKS, D.J., J.A. VAN ORMAN & C.E. LESHER. 2012. Isotope Fractionation in Silicate Melts. Nature 482: E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

ALSDORF, D.E., J.M. MELACK, T. DUNNE, L.A. MERTES, L.L. HESS & L.C. SMITH. 2000. Interferometric Radar Measurements of Water Level Changes on the Amazon Flood Plain. Nature 404: 174–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

HANZO, L., T.H. LIEW & B.L. YEAP. 2005. Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

TRUSSELL, L.O., A.N. POPPER & R.R. FAY (Eds.). 2012. Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System. Springer, New York, NY. XIV, 234 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

LIM, J.H. 2007. Intestinal Obstruction. In: G. Maconi and G. B. Porro (Eds.). Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 27–34.

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 Turtle Newsletter.

Blog post

ANDREW, E. 2014. Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ask-physicist-speak-your-funeral-0/ (October 30, 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. 1992. Internal Control Weaknesses in Army Safeguarding of Computer Equipment. 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

BELFLOWER, K.E. 2012. The Relationship between Demographic and Employment Variables of Job Satisfaction among Emergency Nurses. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

VECSEY, G. 2012. A Heady Nightcap in a City Not Known for Sleeping. New York Times SP5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fukatsu 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Margules & Pressey 2000; Fukatsu 2010).

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

Two authors: (Margules & Pressey 2000)
Three or more authors: (Alsdorf et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Turtle Newsletter
ISSN (online)	0839-7708
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