How to format your references using the Ocean Dynamics citation style

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

Johnson SC (2014) Translational Medicine. A target for pharmacological intervention in an untreatable human disease. Science 346:1192

A journal article with 2 authors

Schubert EF, Kim JK (2005) Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science 308:1274–1278

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang M, Atkinson KR, Baughman RH (2004) Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science 306:1358–1361

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee-Six H, Øbro NF, Shepherd MS, et al (2018) Population dynamics of normal human blood inferred from somatic mutations. Nature 561:473–478

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms (2011) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maharry D (2005) Beginning VB .NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Philippe X (2016) Les dommages-intérêts pour violation des droits de l’homme en France. In: Bagińska E (ed) Damages for Violations of Human Rights: A Comparative Study of Domestic Legal Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 69–100

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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Declining Winter Sea Ice Near Greenland Spells Cooler Climate For Europe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/declining-winter-sea-ice-near-greenland-spells-cooler-climate-europe/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1974) A-10 Close Air Support Aircraft. 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

Bennett AL (2019) An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Williams G, Kakissis J, Ferren A, et al (2011) 15 Cities, Wrapped in a Bow, for Under $100. New York Times TR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Schubert and Kim 2005; Johnson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Schubert and Kim 2005)
Three or more authors: (Lee-Six et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ocean Dynamics
Abbreviation	Ocean Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1616-7341
ISSN (online)	1616-7228
Scope	Oceanography