How to format your references using the Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic 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

[1]

A’Hearn, M. F., 2000, “The Comet No One Saw,” Nature, 405(6784), pp. 285, 287.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Buckling, A., and Rainey, P. B., 2002, “The Role of Parasites in Sympatric and Allopatric Host Diversification,” Nature, 420(6915), pp. 496–499.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Srianand, R., Petitjean, P., and Ledoux, C., 2000, “The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature at a Redshift of 2.34,” Nature, 408(6815), pp. 931–935.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhu, H., Qin, X., Sun, X., Yan, W., Yang, J., and Xie, Y., 2013, “Rocking-Chair Configuration in Ultrathin Lithium Vanadate-Graphene Hybrid Nanosheets for Electrical Modulation,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 1246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Coles, A., and Hawkins, D. G., 2011, MIDAS Technical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Moor, O. de, and Schwartzbach, M. I., eds., 2009, Compiler Construction: 18th International Conference, CC 2009, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009, York, UK, March 22-29, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Isidoro, C., Fachada, N., Barata, F., and Rosa, A., 2009, “Agent-Based Model of Aedes Aegypti Population Dynamics,” Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009. Proceedings, L.S. Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano, and L.M. Rocha, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–64.

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 Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, C., 2017, “What The Hell Is This Bizarre Thing?,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1976, Student Attrition at the Five Federal Service Academies. Enclosure B:, FPCD-76-12B, 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

[1]

Howard, G. M., 2012, “Roles of Vitamin D and Calcium in Cancer and Diet History,” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University.

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

[1]

Brantley, B., and Green, J., 2017, “Critics at War? Yes. But Agreeing, Too,” New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Offshore Mech. Arct. Eng. Trans. ASME
ISSN (print)	0892-7219
ISSN (online)	1528-896X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering