How to format your references using the Paleoceanography citation style

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

Popov, V. L. (2014). Analytic solution for the limiting shape of profiles due to fretting wear. Scientific Reports, 4, 3749.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinnamon, S. C., & Reynolds, S. D. (2009). Cell biology. Using taste to clear the air(ways). Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5944), 1081–1082.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prospero, J. M., Bullard, J. E., & Hodgkins, R. (2012). High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6072), 1078–1082.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Masuda, S., Awaji, T., Sugiura, N., Matthews, J. P., Toyoda, T., Kawai, Y., et al. (2010). Simulated rapid warming of abyssal North Pacific waters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5989), 319–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nations, S. (2014). The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

de Souza, W. (Ed.). (2010). Structures and Organelles in Pathogenic Protists (Vol. 17). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Domańska, J., Głomb, P., Kowalski, P., & Nowak, S. (2009). Modeling of Internet 3D Traffic Using Hidden Markov Models. In E. Tkacz & A. Kapczynski (Eds.), Internet – Technical Development and Applications (pp. 37–44). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Paleoceanography.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 24). Timelapse Video Shows The “Peaceful Bliss” Of Preparing Fossils For Show. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1969). An Approach to the Audit of Research and Development Activities (No. 091023). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herron, M. (2013). Prescripton labels: Do you know what medication you are taking? (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

Vecsey, G. (2013, September 2). A Roof Is Planned, but It’s a Waiting Game for Fans and Players. New York Times, p. D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Popov, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kinnamon & Reynolds, 2009; Popov, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kinnamon & Reynolds, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Masuda et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Paleoceanography
Abbreviation	Paleoceanography
ISSN (print)	0883-8305
ISSN (online)	1944-9186
Scope	Oceanography Palaeontology