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

Glassmeier, K.-H., 2009. Planetary science. Magnetic twisters on Mercury. Science 324, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Modlin, R.L., Sieling, P.A., 2005. Immunology. Now presenting: gammadelta T cells. Science 309, 252–253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lucia, U., Ponzetto, A., Deisboeck, T.S., 2014. A thermo-physical analysis of the proton pump vacuolar-ATPase: the constructal approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 6763.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sancak, Y., Peterson, T.R., Shaul, Y.D., Lindquist, R.A., Thoreen, C.C., Bar-Peled, L., Sabatini, D.M., 2008. The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1. Science 320, 1496–1501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, E.M., Kamal-Eldin, A., 2013. Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Aspinall, D., Camenisch, J., Hansen, M., Fischer-Hübner, S., Raab, C. (Eds.), 2016. Privacy and Identity Management. Time for a Revolution?: 10th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, Edinburgh, UK, August 16-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Corney, D., Byrne, E., Buxton, B., Jones, D., 2008. A Logical Framework for Template Creation and Information Extraction, in: Lin, T.Y., Xie, Y., Wasilewska, A., Liau, C.-J. (Eds.), Data Mining: Foundations and Practice, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 79–108.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Robots Could Soon Be Controlled By Bacteria [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bacteria-could-soon-control-brains-robots/ (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, 1997. Multiple Launch Rocket System: Range Less Than Needed and Sustained Rocket Production Not Ensured (No. NSIAD-97-196R). 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

Lee, E.B., 2017. Environmental Thyroid Endocrine Disruption in Shiner Perch (Cymatogaster aggregata): An Analysis of Thyroid Glandular Function (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

Gordon, M., 2012. Blessed Among Women. New York Times BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glassmeier, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Glassmeier, 2009; Modlin and Sieling, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Modlin and Sieling, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sancak et al., 2008)

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