How to format your references using the Progress in Oceanography citation style

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

Berendsen, H.J., 2001. Bioinformatics. Reality simulation--observe while it happens. Science 294, 2304–2305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gulev, S.K., Latif, M., 2015. Ocean science: The origins of a climate oscillation. Nature 521, 428–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cusick, R.D., Kim, Y., Logan, B.E., 2012. Energy capture from thermolytic solutions in microbial reverse-electrodialysis cells. Science 335, 1474–1477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kohiyama, M., Hiraga, S., Matic, I., Radman, M., 2003. Bacterial sex: playing voyeurs 50 years later. Science 301, 802–803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacClancy, J., 2013. Anthropology in the Public Arena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester, UK.

An edited book

El-Meliegy, E., 2012. Glasses and Glass Ceramics for Medical Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kouretas, I., Paliouras, V., 2011. Residue Arithmetic for Designing Low-Power Multiply-Add Units, in: Leuken, R. van, Sicard, G. (Eds.), Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation: 20th International Workshop, PATMOS 2010, Grenoble, France, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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 Progress in Oceanography.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. This New Treatment Could Make Pancreatic Cancer A Manageable Disease [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-new-treatment-could-make-pancreatic-cancer-a-manageable-disease/ (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, 1997. Safe and Drug-Free Schools: Balancing Accountability With State and Local Flexibility (No. HEHS-98-3). 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

Davis, L.V., 2017. Oxidation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Iron Phthalocyanine Thin Films (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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. O Slapstick Tragedy! New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berendsen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Berendsen, 2001; Gulev and Latif, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gulev and Latif, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kohiyama et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Oceanography
Abbreviation	Prog. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	0079-6611
Scope	Aquatic Science Geology

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