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

Jaeglé, L. (2007). Atmospheric science. Pumping up surface air. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), 772–773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chase, M. W., & Fay, M. F. (2009). Ecology. Barcoding of plants and fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 682–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murton, J. B., Peterson, R., & Ozouf, J.-C. (2006). Bedrock fracture by ice segregation in cold regions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5802), 1127–1129.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ning, W., Kong, F., Han, Y., Du, H., Yang, J., Tian, M., & Zhang, Y. (2014). Robust surface state transport in thin bismuth nanoribbons. Scientific Reports, 4, 7086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Shuhail, A. A., Al-Dossary, S. A., & Mousa, W. A. (2017). Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Atzmueller, M., Hotho, A., Strohmaier, M., & Chin, A. (Eds.). (2011). Analysis of Social Media and Ubiquitous Data: International Workshops MSM 2010, Toronto, Canada, June 13, 2010, and MUSE 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 6904). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Basch, P. (2013). Making “Right” Easier. In L. Berkowitz & C. McCarthy (Eds.), Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare (pp. 39–55). London: 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

Andrew, D. (2015, April 6). What Do You See - Albert Einstein Or Marilyn Monroe? 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. (2007). Telecommunications: Issues Related to the Structure and Funding of Public Television (No. GAO-07-150). 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

Pederson, H. M. (2012). Decreasing blame and building therapeutic alliance: Clarifying central change processes in functional family therapy (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, March 30). A Super Mission: Crashing the Closet. New York Times, p. AR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaeglé, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chase & Fay, 2009; Jaeglé, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Chase & Fay, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ning et al., 2014)

About the journal

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