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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Aho, A. V., 2004: Software and the future of programming languages. Science, 303, 1331–1333.
A journal article with 2 authors
Caruthers, M., and R. Wells, 2011: Retrospective. Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011). Science, 334, 1511.
A journal article with 3 authors
Smith, T. M., T. R. Karl, and R. W. Reynolds, 2002: Climate modeling. How accurate are climate simulations? Science, 296, 483–484.
A journal article with 9 or more authors
Pupo, G., and Coauthors, 2018: Asymmetric nucleophilic fluorination under hydrogen bonding phase-transfer catalysis. Science, 360, 638–642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Le Doeuff, R., and M. E. H. Zaïm, 2013: Rotating Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.
An edited book
Meersman, R., T. Dillon, and P. Herrero, eds., 2011: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops and Posters: EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP+INBAST, ISDE, ORM, OTMA, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS, and VADER 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, XXXIV, 665 p pp.
A chapter in an edited book
Tapia, D. I., Ó. García, R. S. Alonso, F. Guevara, J. Catalina, R. A. Bravo, and J. M. Corchado, 2012: Evaluating the n-Core Polaris Real-Time Locating System in an Indoor Environment. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, J.M.C. Rodríguez, J.B. Pérez, P. Golinska, S. Giroux, and R. Corchuelo, Eds., Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer, 29–37.

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
Davis, J., 2015: E-Cigarettes “Around 95% Less Harmful” Than Regular Smoking. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-regular-smoking-according-independent-report/ (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, 1998: Airline Competition: Cargo Airline Has Enhanced Competition in Hawaii but Faces an Uncertain Future. 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
Sun, Z., 2013: A qualitative study of Chinese parents’ beliefs, involvement and challenges in support of their children’s English language development in China. 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
Forsythe, M., 2017: A Missing Tycoon’s Links to Dalian Wanda, China’s Troubled Conglomerate. New York Times, August 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aho 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Aho 2004; Caruthers and Wells 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Caruthers and Wells 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Pupo et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
AbbreviationJ. Phys. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)0022-3670
ISSN (online)1520-0485
ScopeOceanography

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