How to format your references using the Ocean Modelling citation style

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

Schiermeier, Q., 2008. Westernizing Eastern-bloc science. Nature 453, 558–559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlton, J.G., Martin-Serrano, J., 2007. Parallels between cytokinesis and retroviral budding: a role for the ESCRT machinery. Science 316, 1908–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ellis, A.S., Johnson, T.M., Bullen, T.D., 2002. Chromium isotopes and the fate of hexavalent chromium in the environment. Science 295, 2060–2062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ilani, S., Yacoby, A., Mahalu, D., Shtrikman, H., 2001. Microscopic structure of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions. Science 292, 1354–1357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kizer, G., 2013. Digital Microwave Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hudak, P., Warren, D.S. (Eds.), 2008. Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 10th International Symposium, PADL 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 7-8, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Drago, E.C., 2007. The Physical Dynamics of the River–Lake Floodplain System, in: Iriondo, M.H., Paggi, J.C., Parma, M.J. (Eds.), The Middle Paraná River: Limnology of a Subtropical Wetland. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 83–122.

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 Modelling.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Woman May Have Contracted HIV From Sharing Manicure Equipment [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Air Traffic Control: Issues Presented by Proposal to Create a Government Corporation (No. T-RCED-95-114). 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

Torres, M.F., 2009. The effect of mergers and acquisitions in the information technology organizational structures (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

Chira, S., 2013. Strange Moors. 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 (Schiermeier, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Carlton and Martin-Serrano, 2007; Schiermeier, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Carlton and Martin-Serrano, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ilani et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ocean Modelling
Abbreviation	Ocean Model. (Oxf.)
ISSN (print)	1463-5003
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Atmospheric Science Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Oceanography