How to format your references using the Ships and Offshore Structures citation style

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

Jakosky BM. 2015. MAVEN GOES TO MARS. MAVEN Explores the Martian Upper Atmosphere. Introduction. Science. 350(6261):643.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keklikoglou I, De Palma M. 2014. Cancer: Metastasis risk after anti-macrophage therapy. Nature. 515(7525):46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinclair ARE, Mduma S, Brashares JS. 2003. Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system. Nature. 425(6955):288–290.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Dolezal P, Likic V, Tachezy J, Lithgow T. 2006. Evolution of the molecular machines for protein import into mitochondria. Science. 313(5785):314–318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilbao S. 2005. Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ebermann H-J, Scheiderer J, editors. 2013. Human Factors on the Flight Deck: Safe Piloting Behaviour in Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorgi A. 2009. Professional Marginalization in Psychology: Choice or Destiny? In: Mos LP, editor. History of Psychology in Autobiography. New York, NY: Springer US; p. 131–157.

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 Ships and Offshore Structures.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. Vast Unique Ecosystems Discovered In The Twilight Zone Off The Coast Of Hawaii. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vast-unique-ecosystems-discovered-in-the-twilight-zone-off-the-coast-of-hawaii/

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. 1993. Food Assistance: Information on Meal Costs in the National School Lunch Program. 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

Gowda V. 2009. Pollination biology and inter-island geographical variation in the mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)-hummingbird (Trochilidae) interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Murphy MJO. 2015. Friday File. New York Times.:C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jakosky 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Keklikoglou and De Palma 2014; Jakosky 2015).

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

Two authors: (Keklikoglou and De Palma 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dolezal et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ships and Offshore Structures
Abbreviation	Ships Offshore Structures
ISSN (print)	1744-5302
ISSN (online)	1754-212X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering