How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 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

Bull, J. J. (2015). Evolution: Reptile sex determination goes wild. Nature, 523(7558), 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Godley, L. A., & Mondragón, A. (2011). Molecular biology. Preference by exclusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1017–1018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sta Ana, J. L., Frankel, M. S., & Berger, K. M. (2009). Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5957), 1193.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Palframan, W. J., Meehl, J. B., Jaspersen, S. L., Winey, M., & Murray, A. W. (2006). Anaphase inactivation of the spindle checkpoint. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 680–684.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jeong, H. (2014). Architectures for Computer Vision. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gollmann, D., Lanet, J.-L., & Iguchi-Cartigny, J. (Eds.). (2010). Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6035). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ng, T. Y., Joshi, S. C., Yeo, J., & Liu, Z. (2016). Effects of Nanoporosity on the Mechanical Properties and Applications of Aerogels in Composite Structures. In S. A. Meguid (Ed.), Advances in Nanocomposites: Modeling, Characterization and Applications (pp. 97–126). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 13). Rosetta Maps Gas On Comet 67P For First Time. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-maps-gas-comet-67p-first-time/

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. (1981). Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development (No. FPCD-81-62). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Witt, S. R. (2017). A Study of the Relationship of Online Course Factors and Passing or Failing an Online Course (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Urban, M., & Deegan, L. (2016, February 6). T-Shirt Weather in the Arctic. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bull, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bull, 2015; Godley & Mondragón, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Godley & Mondragón, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Palframan et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Oceans
ISSN (print)	2169-9275
ISSN (online)	2169-9291
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