How to format your references using the Advances in Oceanography and Limnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Oceanography and Limnology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

Stankiewicz BA. Integration of geoscience and engineering in the oil industry - just a dream? Nature. 2003;426(6964):360–363.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chisholm JR, Kelley R. Worms start the reef-building process. Nature. 2001;409(6817):152.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Garner EC, Campbell CS, Mullins RD. Dynamic instability in a DNA-segregating prokaryotic actin homolog. Science. 2004;306(5698):1021–1025.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pulit-Penaloza JA, Esser ES, Vassilieva EV, et al. A protective role of murine langerin⁺ cells in immune responses to cutaneous vaccination with microneedle patches. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6094.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morrow E, Boaz A, Brearley S, et al. Handbook of Service User Involvement in Nursing and Healthcare Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ponsky LE, Fuller DB, Meier RM, et al., editors. Robotic Radiosurgery. Treating Prostate Cancer and Related Genitourinary Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rosen E, Tsesis I. Surgical Anesthesia: When a Tool Becomes a Weapon. In: Tsesis I, editor. Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 53–60.

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 Advances in Oceanography and Limnology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Folded DNA Recreates A Nano-Sized Van Gogh Painting [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/folded-dna-recreates-a-nanosized-van-gogh-painting/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Education Programs: Information on the Ed-Flex Demonstration Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997. Report No.: HEHS-98-61R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Minger L. Examining Education Leadership Communication Practices around Basic and Advanced Skill Sets: A Multiple Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

[1]

Kelly C. The Sailors Of Winter: In the Cold, Cold Sea. New York Times. 1999 Mar 7;812.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Oceanography and Limnology
ISSN (print)	1947-5721
ISSN (online)	1947-573X
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography