How to format your references using the Journal of Physical Oceanography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physical Oceanography. 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	Download the output style file
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

Richter, F. M., 2011: Isotope fractionation in silicate melts by thermal diffusion. Nature, 472, E1; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romney, D. K., and S. J. Miller, 2015: Chemistry. Climbing Jacob’s ladder. Science, 347, 829.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor, P. D., T. Day, and G. Wild, 2007: Evolution of cooperation in a finite homogeneous graph. Nature, 447, 469–472.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Parhira, S., G.-Y. Zhu, R.-W. Jiang, L. Liu, L.-P. Bai, and Z.-H. Jiang, 2014: 2’-Epi-uscharin from the latex of Calotropis gigantea with HIF-1 inhibitory activity. Sci. Rep., 4, 4748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson, J. C., 2015: Lean Auditing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Mahrwald, R., ed., 2011: Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions I: Enantioselective Oxidation, Reduction, Functionalization and Desymmetrization. Springer Netherlands, XIV, 322 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohsawa, Y., 2006: Scenario Maps on Situational Switch Model, Applied to Blood-Test Data for Hepatitis C Patients. Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, Y. Ohsawa and S. Tsumoto, Eds., Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 69–81.

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 Physical Oceanography.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016: Ceres’ Bright Spot Could Actually Be Salt Volcanoes. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-bright-spot-could-actually-be-salt-volcanoes/ (Accessed October 30, 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, 2015: Aviation Security: TSA Should Take Additional Action to Obtain Stakeholder Input when Modifying the Prohibited Items List. 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

Taylor, W. A., 2010: Every citizen a soldier: The U.S. Army’s campaign for universal military training following World War II. George Washington 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

Hollander, S., 2000: Cold and Tired, Australian Swimmer Wins Marathon for His Father. New York Times, June 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richter 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Richter 2011; Romney and Miller 2015).

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

Two authors: (Romney and Miller 2015)
Three or more authors: (Parhira et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physical Oceanography
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	0022-3670
ISSN (online)	1520-0485
Scope	Oceanography