How to format your references using the Regional Studies in Marine Science citation style

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

Byatt, A.S., 2005. Fiction informed by science. Nature 434, 294–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ueshima, R., Asami, T., 2003. Evolution: single-gene speciation by left-right reversal. Nature 425, 679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Douglas, S.M., Bachelet, I., Church, G.M., 2012. A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads. Science 335, 831–834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stenni, B., Masson-Delmotte, V., Johnsen, S., Jouzel, J., Longinelli, A., Monnin, E., Rothlisberger, R., Selmo, E., 2001. An oceanic cold reversal during the last deglaciation. Science 293, 2074–2077.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson, H., 2012. Cable-Stayed Bridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Zhao, L., 2014. Cloud Data Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulić, M.L., Buzdin, A.I., 2008. Coexistence of Singlet Superconductivity and Magnetic Order in Bulk Magnetic Superconductors and SF Heterostructures, in: Bennemann, K.H., Ketterson, J.B. (Eds.), Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 163–200.

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 Regional Studies in Marine Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. A New Type Of Surfboard Could Soon Be Making Waves [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-type-surfboard-could-be-soon-making-waves-waiting-author/ (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, 2012. James Webb Space Telescope: Actions Needed to Improve Cost Estimate and Oversight of Test and Integration (No. GAO-13-4). 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

Huang, Y., 2017. Optimal control of heat engines in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (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

Brantley, B., 2016. A Weird Wedding Night. And Then …. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Byatt, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Byatt, 2005; Ueshima and Asami, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ueshima and Asami, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stenni et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regional Studies in Marine Science
Abbreviation	Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2352-4855
Scope