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

Lazar, M.A., 2000. Gene regulation. One man’s food. Nature 407, 852–853.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abbott, L.F., Regehr, W.G., 2004. Synaptic computation. Nature 431, 796–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maret, S., Bergin, E.A., Lada, C.J., 2006. A low fraction of nitrogen in molecular form in a dark cloud. Nature 442, 425–427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aubert, C., Vos, M.H., Mathis, P., Eker, A.P., Brettel, K., 2000. Intraprotein radical transfer during photoactivation of DNA photolyase. Nature 405, 586–590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski, W., 2002. Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Solomon, D., Fan, R., Lo, P.-C. (Eds.), 2012. Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition, Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pratje, E., 2007. Proteases of the Rhomboid Family in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, in: Hooper, N.M., Lendeckel, U. (Eds.), Intramembrane-Cleaving Proteases (I-CLiPs), Proteases in Biology and Disease. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 79–88.

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., 2015. Dunkin’ Donuts Ditches Titanium Dioxide – But Is It Actually Harmful? [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, 2003. Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry (No. GAO-04-8). 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

Bunkley, R.L., 2010. A mentoring program for adolescents in a placement facility: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Tom of Finland. New York Times C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazar, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott and Regehr, 2004; Lazar, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Abbott and Regehr, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Aubert et al., 2000)

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