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:

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
Di Noia, J. M. 2015. “Molecular biology: Unequal opportunity during class switching.” Nature, 525 (7567): 44–45.
A journal article with 2 authors
Dudney, N. J., and J. Li. 2015. “Materials science. Using all energy in a battery.” Science, 347 (6218): 131–132.
A journal article with 3 authors
Weaver, B. A. A., A. D. Silk, and D. W. Cleveland. 2006. “Cell biology: nondisjunction, aneuploidy and tetraploidy.” Nature, 442 (7104): E9-10; discussion E10.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Li, Y. Y., F. Cunin, J. R. Link, T. Gao, R. E. Betts, S. H. Reiver, V. Chin, S. N. Bhatia, and M. J. Sailor. 2003. “Polymer replicas of photonic porous silicon for sensing and drug delivery applications.” Science, 299 (5615): 2045–2047.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Benchaib, A. 2015. Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Degiorgio, V. 2016. Photonics: A Short Course. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics, (I. Cristiani, ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Clunas, C. 2004. “Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China.” History of Science, History of Text, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, K. Chemla, ed., 107–121. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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
Carpineti, A. 2016. “Search For Life Around Weird Star Continues.” IFLScience. 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. 1995. Highway Safety: Reliability and Validity of DOT Crash Tests. 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
Vazquez Baeza, Y. 2017. “Statistical Representations Of Microbial Systems.” Doctoral dissertation. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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
Crow, K. 2001. “Looking For Love.” New York Times, February 11, 2001.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Di Noia 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Di Noia 2015; Dudney and Li 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Dudney and Li 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
AbbreviationJ. Waterway Port Coast. Ocean Eng.
ISSN (print)0733-950X
ISSN (online)1943-5460
ScopeCivil and Structural Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Water Science and Technology

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