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

Davis, B. 2011. Education. Mathematics teachers’ subtle, complex disciplinary knowledge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6037):1506–1507,.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blume-Jensen, P., and T. Hunter. 2001. Oncogenic kinase signalling. Nature, 411(6835):355–365,.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acquisti, A., L. Brandimarte, and G. Loewenstein. 2015. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6221):509–514,.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McFarland, B. K., J. P. Farrell, P. H. Bucksbaum, and M. Gühr. 2008. High harmonic generation from multiple orbitals in N2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5905):1232–1235,.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reay, D. 2012. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the OMAP-L138 EXperimenter. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, pp.

An edited book

2009. Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective: Design Requirements Workshop, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 3-6, 2007, Revised and Invited Papers (K. Lyytinen,, P. Loucopoulos,, J. Mylopoulos, and B. Robinson, eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIII, 495 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Dharmadhikari, A. K., and D. Mathur. 2010. Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in Condensed Media; Pp. 81–108. In Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume V., . Springer Series in Chemical Physics K. Yamanouchi,, A. Giulietti, and K. Ledingham, eds, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Luntz, S. 2014. Trio Of Monster Black Holes Discovered. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/trio-monster-black-holes-discovered/ 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. 2000. FAA Computer Security: Actions Needed to Address Critical Weaknesses That Jeopardize Aviation Operations. 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

Harris, D. W. 2012. An examination of the impact of computer-based animations and visualization sequence on student understanding of Hadley Cells in atmospheric circulation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 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

Walsh, M. W. 2010. Harrisburg Expects to Miss a Bond Payment. New York Times, B3,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Blume-Jensen and Hunter, 2001; Davis, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Blume-Jensen and Hunter, 2001)
Three or more authors: (McFarland et al., 2008)

About the journal

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