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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ocean and Coastal Research (OCR). 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

Tanner, K. E. 2012. Materials science. Small but extremely tough. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6086), 1237–1238.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman, Y. J. & Koren, I. 2006. Smoke and pollution aerosol effect on cloud cover. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 655–658.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, L., Treisman, A. & Pashler, H. 2007. Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 823–825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, J., Long, M., Li, X., Xu, H., Huang, H. & Gao, Y. 2014. Theoretical prediction of electronic structure and carrier mobility in single-walled MoS₂ nanotubes. Scientific Reports, 4, 4327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marage, J.-P. & Mori, Y. 2013. Sonar and Underwater Acoustics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kuhlin, B. & Thielmann, H. (eds.). 2005. The Practical Real-Time Enterprise: Facts and Perspectives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XIV, 560 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Kao, E. C.-C. & Soo, V.-W. 2012. Dialog Designs in Virtual Drama: Balancing Agency and Scripted Dialogs. In: Beer, M., Brom, C., Dignum, F., & Soo, V.-W. (eds.), Agents for Educational Games and Simulations: International Workshop, AEGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. Revised Papers (pp. 63–78). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016. Parents Are Freaking Out Because They Can’t Answer A 7-Year-Old Kid’s Exam Question. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7-year-old-kids-homework-confusing-adults-internet/. Accessed: 30 October 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. 2009. Public Transportation: Federal Project Approval Process Remains a Barrier to Greater Private Sector Role and DOT Could Enhance Efforts to Assist Project Sponsors (No. GAO-10-19). 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

Crosby, A. E. 2012. A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

St. John Kelly, E. 1998. Teaching Doctors Sensitivity On the Most Sensitive of Exams. New York Times, p. F7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tanner, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kaufman and Koren, 2006; Tanner, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kaufman and Koren, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ocean and Coastal Research
ISSN (online)	2675-2824
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