How to format your references using the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean 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	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

Musacchio, A. 2010. “Molecular biology. Surfing chromosomes (and Survivin).” Science, 330 (6001): 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek, A. M., and D. Bercovici. 2011. “Seismic tremors and magma wagging during explosive volcanism.” Nature, 470 (7335): 522–525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibring, J.-P., S. W. Squyres, and R. E. Arvidson. 2006. “Planetary science. Merging views on Mars.” Science, 313 (5795): 1899–1901.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, Y., A. Lee, J. Chen, M. Cadene, B. T. Chait, and R. MacKinnon. 2002. “The open pore conformation of potassium channels.” Nature, 417 (6888): 523–526.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P. 2015. E-Enabled Operations Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Q., Y. Cheng, and N. C. Liu (Eds.). 2013. Building World-Class Universities: Different Approaches to a Shared Goal. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Dinh, T.-C., and N. Sibony. 2010. “Dynamics in Several Complex Variables: Endomorphisms of Projective Spaces and Polynomial-like Mappings.” Holomorphic Dynamical Systems: Cetraro, Italy, July 7-12, 2008, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, E. Bedford, M. Brunella, T.-C. Dinh, D. Schleicher, N. Sibony, G. Gentili, J. Guenot, and G. Patrizio, eds., 165–294. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2016. “How Pokemon Go Turned Couch Potatoes Into Fitness Fanatics Without Them Even Realising It.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-pokemon-go-turned-couch-potatoes-into-fitness-fanatics-without-them-even-realising-it/.

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. 1975. Information on the New Community of Soul City, North Carolina. Washington, DC: 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

Havill, N. L. 2012. “Therapeutic landscapes for birth: A research synthesis.” Doctoral dissertation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Feeney, K. 2008. “Ask for a Taco, Not For Lucinda.” New York Times, May 18, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Musacchio 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jellinek and Bercovici 2011; Musacchio 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jellinek and Bercovici 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Waterway Port Coast. Ocean Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-950X
ISSN (online)	1943-5460
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Ocean Engineering Water Science and Technology