How to format your references using the Ocean and Coastal Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ocean and Coastal Management. 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

Eisenstein, M., 2009. Neural circuits: Putting neurons on the map. Nature 461, 1149–1152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soshnikova, N., Duboule, D., 2009. Epigenetic temporal control of mouse Hox genes in vivo. Science 324, 1320–1323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kessler, D., Gase, K., Baldwin, I.T., 2008. Field experiments with transformed plants reveal the sense of floral scents. Science 321, 1200–1202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wookey, J., Stackhouse, S., Kendall, J.-M., Brodholt, J., Price, G.D., 2005. Efficacy of the post-perovskite phase as an explanation for lowermost-mantle seismic properties. Nature 438, 1004–1007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kriegel, J., 2016. Unfairly Labeled. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dedousis, A.P., Bartzanas, T. (Eds.), 2010. Soil Engineering, Soil Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández-Quijada, D., 2016. Retiology as Ideological Determinism in the Media: A Political Economy Perspective, in: Garcia, J.L. (Ed.), Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 83–101.

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 Ocean and Coastal Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Working the Weather By Laser [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, 1995. Coast Guard Cutters: Actions Needed Now to Ensure Better Management of Parts and Supplies (No. RCED-95-62). 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

Dulick, K.C., 2010. Self-neglect among the elderly: Knowledge and perceptions of MSW students (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

Billard, M., 2013. Brooklyn Is Roasting by an Open Fire. New York Times E11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein, 2009; Soshnikova and Duboule, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Soshnikova and Duboule, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wookey et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ocean and Coastal Management
Abbreviation	Ocean Coast. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0964-5691
Scope	Aquatic Science Oceanography Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law