How to format your references using the International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean 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

Allshire, R., 2002. Molecular biology. RNAi and heterochromatin--a hushed-up affair. Science 297, 1818–1819.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eldar, A., Elowitz, M.B., 2010. Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits. Nature 467, 167–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, K., Cho, K., Kim, S., 2013. Stable bending performance of flexible organic light-emitting diodes using IZO anodes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, C.Y., Manning, L., Albertson, R., Doe, C.Q., 2000. The tumour-suppressor genes lgl and dlg regulate basal protein targeting in Drosophila neuroblasts. Nature 408, 596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Münch, V., 2009. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Abramowicz, W. (Ed.), 2011. Business Information Systems: 14th International Conference, BIS 2011, Poznań, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Glouche, Y., Gautier, T., Guernic, P.L., Talpin, J.-P., 2010. A Module Language for Typing SIGNAL Programs by Contracts, in: Shukla, S.K., Talpin, J.-P. (Eds.), Synthesis of Embedded Software: Frameworks and Methodologies for Correctness by Construction. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 147–171.

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 International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Mount St Helens Is Rumbling Again, So Should We Be Worried? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2011. Information Technology: Continued Improvements in Investment Oversight and Management Can Yield Billions in Savings (No. GAO-11-511T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zohourian, M., 2015. Supply Chain Decision Making Under Demand Uncertainty and the Use of Control Systems: A Correlational Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Martin, D., 2013. Aleksei Balabanov, 54, Russian Film Director. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Allshire, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Allshire, 2002; Eldar and Elowitz, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eldar and Elowitz, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Peng et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
ISSN (print)	2092-6782
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Ocean Engineering