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

Andreae, M. O. (2007). Atmosphere. Aerosols before pollution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hansen, D. M., & Galetti, M. (2009). Ecology. The forgotten megafauna. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5923), 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coppedè, N., Villani, M., & Gentile, F. (2014). Diffusion driven selectivity in organic electrochemical transistors. Scientific Reports, 4, 4297.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Akashi, K., Traver, D., Miyamoto, T., & Weissman, I. L. (2000). A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages. Nature, 404(6774), 193–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenholm, S., & Suominen, K.-A. (2005). Quantum Approach to Informatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bennetzen, J. L., & Hake, S. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xie, X., Li, Y., Sun, Y., Zhang, J., Fang, F., Yue, W., & Pei, X. (2015). Stem Cells and Hematopoietic Cell Engineering. In R. C. Zhao (Ed.), Stem Cells: Basics and Clinical Translation (pp. 111–144). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). Lexus Have Seriously Built A Working Hoverboard. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (2006). National Airspace System Modernization: Observations on Potential Funding Options for FAA and the Next Generation Airspace System (No. GAO-06-1114T). 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

Clavio, G. (2008). Uses and gratifications of Internet collegiate sport message board users (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Senior, J. (2017, August 30). A Prison Life, A Violent End. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andreae, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae, 2007; Hansen & Galetti, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hansen & Galetti, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Akashi et al., 2000)

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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