How to format your references using the Methods in Oceanography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methods in 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Petherick, A., 2012. Environment and genetics: Making sense of the noise. Nature 485, S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anfinrud, P., Schotte, F., 2005. Chemistry. X-ray fingerprinting of chemical intermediates in solution. Science 309, 1192–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keith, D.W., Parson, E., Morgan, M.G., 2010. Research on global sun block needed now. Nature 463, 426–427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matsubara, H., Yoshimoto, S., Saito, H., Jianglin, Y., Tanaka, Y., Noda, S., 2008. GaN photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser at blue-violet wavelengths. Science 319, 445–447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seabridge, A., Morgan, S., 2010. Air Travel and Health. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

McMaster, T., Wastell, D., Ferneley, E., DeGross, J.I. (Eds.), 2007. Organizational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 14–16, Manchester, UK, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, R., Zhu, M., 2016. Sn-Based Alloy Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Preparation, Multi-scale Structure, and Performance, in: Ozoemena, K.I., Chen, S. (Eds.), Nanomaterials in Advanced Batteries and Supercapacitors, Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–125.

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 Methods in Oceanography.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes Have Arrived In The United States [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Burden Sharing: Allied Protection of Ships in the Persian Gulf in 1987 and 1988 (No. NSIAD-90-282BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Castro, R., 2012. Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Friel, B., 2010. Where Will the G.O.P. Go Digging? New York Times WK9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Anfinrud and Schotte, 2005; Petherick, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Anfinrud and Schotte, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Matsubara et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Methods in Oceanography
Abbreviation	Meth. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	2211-1220
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography Ocean Engineering