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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Watson, A. 2000. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5495), 1287a–8a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Macnaghten, P. & Owen, R. 2011. Environmental science: good governance for geoengineering. Nature, 479(7373), 293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Romero, R., Dey, S. K. & Fisher, S. J. 2014. Preterm labor: one syndrome, many causes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6198), 760–765.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kojima, H., Tokizawa, R., Kogure, K., Kobayashi, Y., Itoh, M., Shiah, F.-K., Okuda, N. & Fukui, M. 2014. Community structure of planktonic methane-oxidizing bacteria in a subtropical reservoir characterized by dominance of phylotype closely related to nitrite reducer. Scientific Reports, 4, 5728.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McKean, J. 2014. Customer’s New Voice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dignum, V., Noriega, P., Sensoy, M. & Sichman, J. S. (eds.). 2016. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI: COIN 2015 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4, 2015, COIN@IJCAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 26, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9628). Cham: Springer International Publishing, XII, 437 p. 119 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Carsrud, A. L. & Brännback, M. 2012. Case Three: Surviving Revolution, But Succumbing to Succession – The Story of Five Siblings. In: Brännback, M. (ed.), Family Firms in Transition: Case Studies on Succession, Inheritance, and Governance (pp. 25–32). New York, NY: 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

Davis, J. 2017. Wolves Hunt Less When Living Alongside Bears. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolves-hunt-less-when-living-alongside-bears/. 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. 1982. Education Authority To Charge Student Financial Aid Application Fees (No. B-206573). 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

Baudy, A. R. 2010. Efficacy of glucocorticoids in muscular dystrophy: Signaling, hormonal activities, and muscle inflammation (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. 2013. A Messy Look at the Family Mystery. New York Times, p. AR18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Watson, 2000; Macnaghten and Owen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Macnaghten and Owen, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kojima et al., 2014)

About the journal

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