How to format your references using the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 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 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]

R. Coontz, “Mysteries of astronomy,” Science, vol. 336, no. 6085, p. 1090, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Buckling and P. B. Rainey, “The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification,” Nature, vol. 420, no. 6915, pp. 496–499, Dec. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. S. Barsh, I. S. Farooqi, and S. O’Rahilly, “Genetics of body-weight regulation,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6778, pp. 644–651, Apr. 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. A. Hilder, P. Ridone, Y. Nakayama, B. Martinac, and S.-H. Chung, “Binding of fullerenes and nanotubes to MscL,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5609, Jul. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Ollivier, J.-M. Torrenti, and M. Carcassès, Physical Properties of Concrete and Concrete Constituents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kudělka, J. Pokorný, V. Snášel, and A. Abraham, Eds., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011, vol. 179. in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 179. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Portugali, “Complexity Theories of Cities: Achievements, Criticism and Potentials,” in Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design, J. Portugali, H. Meyer, E. Stolk, and E. Tan, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, pp. 47–62.

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 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Watch A Super Heated Nickel Ball Try To Cut Through A Gobstopper,” IFLScience.

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 Weather: Status of FAA’s New Hazardous Weather Detection and Dissemination Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-87-208, Sep. 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Medlej, “Assessing the Probability of Prototyping Success in Systems Acquisitions (APOPS),” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

J. Wagner, “Security in Stands Is Criticized After Clash,” New York Times, p. D7, Mar. 13, 2017.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
ISSN (print)	0364-9059
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering