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

Smaglik, P., 2000. Gene therapy institute denies that errors led to trial death. Nature 403, 820.

A journal article with 2 authors

Najemnik, J., Geisler, W.S., 2005. Optimal eye movement strategies in visual search. Nature 434, 387–391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W.-W., Yu, H.-Q., Rittmann, B.E., 2015. Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants. Nature 528, 29–31.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, S.-M., Adema, C.M., Kepler, T.B., Loker, E.S., 2004. Diversification of Ig superfamily genes in an invertebrate. Science 305, 251–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk, M., 2013. High-Frequency Magnetic Components. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rhim, J.S., Kremer, R. (Eds.), 2012. Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Folorunso Olufemi, A., Sunar, M.S., Jusoh, N.M., 2011. Improved Incremental Orthogonal Centroid Algorithm for Visualising Pipeline Sensor Datasets, in: Badioze Zaman, H., Robinson, P., Petrou, M., Olivier, P., Shih, T.K., Velastin, S., Nyström, I. (Eds.), Visual Informatics: Sustaining Research and Innovations: Second International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2011, Selangor, Malaysia, November 9-11, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 24–35.

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. Water, Water, Everywhere – Where To Drink In The Solar System [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, 1978. Review of Army’s Efforts To Develop TACFIRE (No. LCD-78-116). 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

McClenahan, A., 2017. The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Bernstein, N., 2014. Medicaid Shift Fuels Rush for Profitable Clients. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Najemnik and Geisler, 2005; Smaglik, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Najemnik and Geisler, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2004)

About the journal

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