How to format your references using the Oceanography citation style

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

Russo, E. 2002. Chemistry plans a structural overhaul. Nature, 419(6903):4–7,.

A journal article with 2 authors

Summers, M. F., and F. A. Hrabowski 3rd. 2006. Diversity. Preparing minority scientists and engineers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769):1870–1871,.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson, J. K., S. Rainville, and D. E. Pritchard. 2004. Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces. Nature, 430(6995):58–61,.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tu, B. P., A. Kudlicki, M. Rowicka, and S. L. McKnight. 2005. Logic of the yeast metabolic cycle: temporal compartmentalization of cellular processes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5751):1152–1158,.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tjong, S. C. 2012. Polymer Composites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, pp.

An edited book

2012. Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research (T. Lovat, ed). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XII, 248 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sezgin, E., and D. Yuncu. 2016. The SWOT Analysis of Turkish Airlines Through Skytrax Quality Evaluations in the Global Brand Process; Pp. 65–81. In Development of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry in Southeast Asia., . Managing the Asian Century P. Mandal, and J. Vong, eds, Springer, Singapore.

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 Oceanography.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017. Asthma Can Impact The Sex Lives Of Sufferers. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/asthma-can-impact-the-sex-lives-of-sufferers/ IFLScience.

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. 1990. Observations on H.R. 3774, “The Aging Aircraft Safety Act of 1989.” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Conner, P. A. 2009. The STAR Math test as a predictor of Arkansas BenchmarkTest scores. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO p.

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

Forsythe, M., and A. Stevenson. 2017. Murky Firm Is Behind A Donation Of $18 Billion. New York Times, B1,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Russo, 2002; Summers and Hrabowski, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Summers and Hrabowski, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tu et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oceanography
Abbreviation	Oceanography (Wash. D. C.)
ISSN (print)	1042-8275
Scope	Oceanography