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

Goldstein DB (2011) Growth of genome screening needs debate. Nature 476:27–28

A journal article with 2 authors

Massol F, Crochet P-A (2008) Do animal personalities emerge? Nature 451:E8-9; discussion E9-10

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinney JC, Tchekhovskoy A, Blandford RD (2013) Alignment of magnetized accretion disks and relativistic jets with spinning black holes. Science 339:49–52

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Episkopou V, Arkell R, Timmons PM, et al (2001) Induction of the mammalian node requires Arkadia function in the extraembryonic lineages. Nature 410:825–830

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis JH (2011) Statistics for Compensation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zohuri B (2015) Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactors, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Appelmann I, Liersch R, Kessler T, et al (2010) Angiogenesis Inhibition in Cancer Therapy. In: Liersch R, Berdel WE, Kessler T (eds) Angiogenesis Inhibition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–81

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

Andrew D (2016) Could We Upload A Brain To A Computer – And Should We Even Try? In: IFLScience. 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 (1985) [Request for Opinion Concerning Exchange Agreements Between Patent and Trademark Office and Private Firms]. 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

Friedlander MB (2014) Limited Sight Distance. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wingfield N, de la MERCED MJ (2017) Amazon to Buy Whole Foods For $13 Billion. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldstein 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Massol and Crochet 2008; Goldstein 2011).

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

Two authors: (Massol and Crochet 2008)
Three or more authors: (Episkopou et al. 2001)

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
Scope