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Biology 195A - Marine Biology in a Changing Ocean

"Marine Biology" Citation Examples

Link to a recent issue of "Marine Biology" Journal

Navigate to this issue of "Marine Biology" and check out the bibliographies of a few research articles for examples of citations within an actual journal article.

Volume 168, issue 9, September 2021

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Individual Citation Examples for Common Source Types

Journal article with 1 author:

Damuth J (1987) Interspecific allometry of population density in mammals and other animals: the independence of body mass and population energy‐use. Biol J Linn Soc 31: 193-246

Journal article with 2 authors:

Greenberg CH, McGrane A (1996) A comparison of relative abundance and biomass of ground-dwelling arthropods under different forest management practices. For Ecol Manage 89: 31-41

Journal article with more than 2 authors:

Reuman DC, Mulder C, Raffaelli D, Cohen JE (2008) Three allometric relations of population density to body mass: Theoretical integration and empirical tests in 149 food webs. Ecol Lett 11: 1216-1228

White EP, Ernest SKM, Kerkhoff AJ, Enquist BJ (2007) Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends Ecol Evol 22: 323-330 doi 10.1016/j.tree.2007.03.007

Online Only (Electronic) Journal Article with more than 2 authors:

MacLean HJ, Sørensen JG, Kristensen TN, Loeschcke V, Beedholm K, Kellermann V, Overgaard J (2019) Evolution and plasticity of thermal performance: An analysis of variation in thermal tolerance and fitness in 22 Drosophila species. Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci. https:// 10.1098/rstb.2018.0548

Sheldon KS, Padash M, Carter AW, Marshall KE (2020) Different amplitudes of temperature fluctuation induce distinct transcriptomic and metabolomic responses in the dung beetle Phanaeus vindex. J Exp Biol. https:// 10.1242/jeb.233239

Book with 2 authors:

Legendre P, Legendre L (2012) Numerical ecology. Elsevier, Amsterdam

Book chapter with more than 2 authors:

Rosenzweig ML, Donoghue J, Li YM, Yan C (2011) Estimating species density. In: Magurran AE, McGill BJ (eds) Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp 276-288

Website:

NFU (2014) Healthy harvest. National Farmers Union, Warwickshire, UK. https://www.nfuonline.com/assets/36920

Note: The citation policies for "Marine Biology" state that "websites should only be cited if absolutely essential because they will change with time".

PhD Dissertation:

Zhou S (2011) Genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster. Dissertation. North Carolina State University, Ann Arbor