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

Powell, K., 2004. Stipend survival. Nature 428, 102–103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tigaret, C., Choquet, D., 2009. Neuroscience. More AMPAR garnish. Science 323, 1295–1296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi, A., Kim, B., Matsuoka, S., 2013. The mitochondrial Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, NCLX, regulates automaticity of HL-1 cardiomyocytes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garand, E., Zhou, J., Manolopoulos, D.E., Alexander, M.H., Neumark, D.M., 2008. Nonadiabatic interactions in the Cl + H2 reaction probed by ClH2- and ClD2- photoelectron imaging. Science 319, 72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fant, K.M., 2005. Logically Determined Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Papasratorn, B., Lavangnananda, K., Chutimaskul, W., Vanijja, V. (Eds.), 2010. Advances in Information Technology: 4th International Conference, IAIT 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-5, 2010. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt, R., 2010. Perspectives for Moving Business Processes into the Cloud, in: Bider, I., Halpin, T., Krogstie, J., Nurcan, S., Proper, E., Schmidt, R., Ukor, R. (Eds.), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 11th International Workshop, BPMDS 2010, and 15th International Conference, EMMSAD 2010, Held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–61.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. New Crystal Can Absorb Huge Amounts Of Oxygen And Store It For Later [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. Airline Competition: Passenger Facility Charges Represent a New Funding Source for Airports (No. RCED-91-39). 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

Schutt, R., 2010. Topics in model-based population inference (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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., 2003. In the East Village, an Unusual Bid to Fix Up a Firehouse . . . New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Powell, 2004; Tigaret and Choquet, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tigaret and Choquet, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Garand 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