How to format your references using the Applied Ocean Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Ocean Research. 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]

L. Nilsson, Ph.D.s, come out of the closet!, Science 345 (2014) 706.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.J. Fry, C.L. Peterson, Transcription. Unlocking the gates to gene expression, Science 295 (2002) 1847–1848.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Amselem, M. Sadiq, M. Bourennane, Experimental bound entanglement through a Pauli channel, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1966.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.A. Lissy, P.K. Davis, M. Irwin, W.G. Kaelin, S.F. Dowdy, A common E2F-1 and p73 pathway mediates cell death induced by TCR activation, Nature 407 (2000) 642–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

American Counseling Association, The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling, American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA, USA, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

T. Jones, Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Xiao, X. Hu, The Macro-Statistic Features of Translational Chinese, in: X. Hu (Ed.), Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 67–87.

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 Applied Ocean Research.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Tarantulas Are Right-Handed, Study Suggests, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantulas-right-handed/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Aviation Noise: A National Policy is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Gilkes, Multiple modes of Mdmx regulation affect p53 activation, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

B. Rothenberg, Again Flashing Classic Form, Venus Williams Advances, New York Times (2017) SP4.

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	Applied Ocean Research
Abbreviation	Appl. Ocean Res.
ISSN (print)	0141-1187
Scope	Ocean Engineering