How to format your references using the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy. 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

Wunsch C (2000) Moon, tides and climate. Nature 405:743–744

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanorio T, Kanitpanyacharoen W (2015) ROCK PHYSICS. Rock physics of fibrous rocks akin to Roman concrete explains uplifts at Campi Flegrei Caldera. Science 349:617–621

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitcome KK, Shapiro LJ, Lieberman DE (2007) Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins. Nature 450:1075–1078

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li X, Mao Z, Wu M, Xia J (2013) Rescuing infertility of Pick1 knockout mice by generating testis-specific transgenic mice via testicular infection. Sci Rep 3:2842

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steenbarger BN (2015) Trading Psychology 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Perner P (ed) (2013) Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 9th International Conference, MLDM 2013, New York, NY, USA, July 19-25, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hall OP, Mooney JG (2010) Hybrid Learning Systems: Meeting the Challenges of Graduate Management Education. In: Tsang P, Cheung SKS, Lee VSK, Huang R (eds) Hybrid Learning: Third International Conference, ICHL 2010, Beijing, China, August 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–48

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 Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Toothpaste Fluorine Comes From Long-Dead Stars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/toothpaste-fluorine-comes-long-dead-stars/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Hispanic Dropouts and Federal Programs. 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

Ng A (2012) Exploring the perceptions of health care leaders: Colorectal cancer screening barriers among Chinese Canadian women. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wilson M (2017) Agents Describe Search For Chelsea Bomb Pieces. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wunsch 2000; Vanorio and Kanitpanyacharoen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vanorio and Kanitpanyacharoen 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy
Abbreviation	J. Ocean Eng. Mar. Energy
ISSN (print)	2198-6444
ISSN (online)	2198-6452
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