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

Knapp S (2013) Evolution. What, where, and when? Science 341:1182–1184

A journal article with 2 authors

Thornton A, McAuliffe K (2006) Teaching in wild meerkats. Science 313:227–229

A journal article with 3 authors

Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B (2005) Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature 437:720–723

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Barker PA, Street-Perrott FA, Leng MJ, et al (2001) A 14,000-year oxygen isotope record from diatom silica in two alpine lakes on Mt. Kenya. Science 292:2307–2310

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn-Deinstrop E (2006) Dünnschicht-Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Lukszo Z, Deconinck G, Weijnen MPC (eds) (2010) Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age: Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow’s Electricity Infrastructure. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenz H, Döllner J (2010) High-Quality Non-planar Projections Using Real-Time Piecewise Perspective Projections. In: Ranchordas A, Pereira JM, Araújo HJ, Tavares JMRS (eds) Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–58

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

Fang J (2014) Mini Human Stomachs Grown in the Lab. In: IFLScience. 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 (1986) ADP Acquisition: SEC Needs To Resolve Key Issues Before Proceeding With Its EDGAR System. 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

Parsons AT (2010) Metal-catalyzed annulations of strained cycloalkanes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Yablonsky L (2010) Motorcycle Derby. New York Times ST3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knapp 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Thornton and McAuliffe 2006; Knapp 2013).

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

Two authors: (Thornton and McAuliffe 2006)
Three or more authors: (Barker et al. 2001)

About the journal

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