How to format your references using the International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Wunsch, C., 2000. Moon, tides and climate. Nature 405, 743–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, J.R., Simon, P., 2008. Materials science. Electrochemical capacitors for energy management. Science 321, 651–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mollicone, D., Eva, H.D., Achard, F., 2006. Ecology: human role in Russian wild fires. Nature 440, 436–437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Panchal, V., Lartsev, A., Manzin, A., Yakimova, R., Tzalenchuk, A., Kazakova, O., 2014. Visualisation of edge effects in side-gated graphene nanodevices. Sci. Rep. 4, 5881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson, J.C., 2015. Lean Auditing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Madureira, A., Reis, C., Marques, V. (Eds.), 2013. Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and Applications, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Agmon, T., Sjögre, S., 2016. Government Intervention to Promote Radical Ideas and VC Funds as a Functional Form to Facilitate Their Financing, in: Sjögren, S. (Ed.), Venture Capital and the Inventive Process: VC Funds for Ideas-Led Growth. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 49–64.

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 International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Khaled al-Asaad, The Martyr Of Palmyra [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/khaled-al-asaad-martyr-palmyra/ (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, 2013. Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Guidance Needed to Improve Pipeline Operator Incident Response (No. GAO-13-168). 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

Daysal, N.M., 2009. The effects of uninsurance on hospitals and patient health (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hubbard, B., 2016. Saudi-Led Coalition Admits Error in Funeral Bombing in Yemen. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Simon, 2008; Wunsch, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Simon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Panchal et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
ISSN (print)	2092-6782
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Ocean Engineering