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

Mango, S. E., 2011: Ageing: generations of longevity. Nature, 479, 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enyeart, P. J., and A. D. Ellington, 2011: Synthetic biology: a yeast for all reasons. Nature, 477, 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

Church, G. M., Y. Gao, and S. Kosuri, 2012: Next-generation digital information storage in DNA. Science, 337, 1628.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Pang, W.-W., P. Zhang, G.-C. Zhang, A.-G. Xu, and X.-G. Zhao, 2014: Nucleation and growth mechanisms of hcp domains in compressed iron. Sci. Rep., 4, 5273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, A., 2012: Fracture Mechanics 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Mayes, R., D. Rixen, D. T. Griffith, D. De Klerk, S. Chauhan, S. N. Voormeeren, and M. S. Allen, eds., 2012: Topics in Experimental Dynamics Substructuring and Wind Turbine Dynamics, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012. Springer, VIII, 358 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, H., D. Zheng, and E. Cui, 2014: The Empirical Analysis of Shandong Province’s Urbanization Level. Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, D. Yang and Y. Qian, Eds., Springer, 41–47.

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

Andrew, E., 2015: Diabetes Drug Boosts Fertility In Obese Female Mice. IFLScience,. (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, 1977: Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on Fundamental Improvements Needed for Timely Promulgation of Health Program Regulations. 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

Garibay, O., 2017: Towards a hybrid approach to mariachi education - Bridging the gap between formal and informal transmission of musical culture. 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

Gordon, M. R., and E. Schmitt, 2017: Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options. New York Times, August 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mango 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mango 2011; Enyeart and Ellington 2011).

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

Two authors: (Enyeart and Ellington 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pang 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