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]

Hofmann DC. Materials science. Shape memory bulk metallic glass composites. Science. 2010;329:1294–1295.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Esler WP, Wolfe MS. A portrait of Alzheimer secretases--new features and familiar faces. Science. 2001;293:1449–1454.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

He Y, Xue G-H, Fu J-Z. Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6973.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Arnett HA, Fancy SPJ, Alberta JA, et al. bHLH transcription factor Olig1 is required to repair demyelinated lesions in the CNS. Science. 2004;306:2111–2115.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tunley M, Whittaker A, Gee J, et al. The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Takeuchi Y, Iwasa Y, Sato K, editors. Mathematics for Life Science and Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Holmes WH, Rinaman WC. Introduction to Statistical Inference. In: Rinaman WC, editor. Statistical Literacy for Clinical Practitioners. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 127–147.

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]

Andrew E. We’re Only Just Starting To Understand The Side-Effects Of Driverless Cars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-re-only-just-starting-understand-side-effects-driverless-cars/.

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. A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: Health. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981. Report No.: OISS-81-8. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sun Z. A qualitative study of Chinese parents’ beliefs, involvement and challenges in support of their children’s English language development in China [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

Lee L. Adjusting a Waistline for a Wedding, but at What Cost? New York Times. 2012 Apr 22;ST19.

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

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