How to format your references using the Maritime Studies citation style

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

Painter, P. R. 2000. Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature 408: 159; discussion 160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hong, S. Y., and E. Kalnay. 2000. Role of sea surface temperature and soil-moisture feedback in the 1998 Oklahoma-Texas drought. Nature 408: 842–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deslauriers, Louis, Ellen Schelew, and Carl Wieman. 2011. Improved learning in a large-enrollment physics class. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332: 862–864.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

He, Gen, Wenjie Luo, Peng Li, Christine Remmers, William J. Netzer, Joseph Hendrick, Karima Bettayeb, et al. 2010. Gamma-secretase activating protein is a therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 467: 95–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Neil, Peter V. 2008. Beginning Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kostrzewa, Richard M., ed. 2014. Handbook of Neurotoxicity. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jung, Joonyoung, and Daeyoung Kim. 2010. Wireless Network of Collaborative Physiological Signal Devices in a U-Healthcare System. In Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology: Second International Conference, AST 2010, Miyazaki, Japan, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings, ed. G. S. Tomar, Ruay-Shiung Chang, Osvaldo Gervasi, Tai-Hoon Kim, and Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay, 39–55. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Maritime Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Two Independent Studies Find Epigenetic Changes In Brains Of Alzheimer’s Patients. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 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. 2015. 2020 Census: Key Information Technology Decisions Must Be Made Soon. GAO-16-205T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dalbey, Spencer B. 2017. Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Marx, Linda. 2014. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times, June 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Painter 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hong and Kalnay 2000; Painter 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hong and Kalnay 2000)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Maritime Studies
Abbreviation	Marit. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2212-9790
Scope	Aquatic Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology Development Geography, Planning and Development