How to format your references using the Oceanologia citation style

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

Schreiber, S.J., 2011. Ecology. Mathematical Dances with wolves. Science 334, 1214–1215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogan, B.M., Black, B.L., 2015. Developmental biology: Diversity in the lymphatic vasculature. Nature 522, 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosoya, T., Baccus, S.A., Meister, M., 2005. Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature 436, 71–77.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Walker, T., Johnson, P.H., Moreira, L.A., Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Frentiu, F.D., McMeniman, C.J., Leong, Y.S., Dong, Y., Axford, J., Kriesner, P., Lloyd, A.L., Ritchie, S.A., O’Neill, S.L., Hoffmann, A.A., 2011. The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations. Nature 476, 450–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geman, H., 2015. Agricultural Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mino, T., Hanaki, K. (Eds.), 2013. Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Papadimitriou, I., 2016. Lectures on Holographic Renormalization, in: Kallosh, R., Orazi, E. (Eds.), Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology: Theoretical Perspective in High Energy Physics, Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 131–181.

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 Oceanologia.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Narcolepsy Medication Could Be A Safe “Smart Drug” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/narcolepsy-medication-could-be-safe-smart-drug/ (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, 1987. Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence (No. PEMD-87-12BR). 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

Theodore, J.A., 2014. A Framework for Comparative Analysis of Gene Expressions and Mutations Linked to Cancer (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Schmitt, E., 2017. U.S. Says Its ISIS Fight Isn’t Raising Civilian Risks. New York Times A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schreiber, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hogan and Black, 2015; Schreiber, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hogan and Black, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Walker et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oceanologia
Abbreviation	Oceanologia
ISSN (print)	0078-3234
Scope	Aquatic Science Atmospheric Science Oceanography Ocean Engineering