How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 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

Sarewitz, D. (2010). Better all the time. Nature, 463(7281), 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nakar, E., & Piran, T. (2011). Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars. Nature, 478(7367), 82–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenton, L. K., Geissler, P. E., & Haberle, R. M. (2007). Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars. Nature, 446(7136), 646–649.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jeon, Y., Park, D.-H., Park, J.-I., Yoon, S.-H., Mochida, I., Choy, J.-H., & Shul, Y.-G. (2013). Hollow fibers networked with perovskite nanoparticles for H2 production from heavy oil. Scientific Reports, 3, 2902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartley, J. (2011). Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gaggin, H. K., & Januzzi, J. L., Jr. (Eds.). (2014). MGH Cardiology Board Review. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casale, P., & Amft, O. (2013). Inferring Model Structures from Inertial Sensor Data in Distributed Activity Recognition. In J. C. Augusto, R. Wichert, R. Collier, D. Keyson, A. A. Salah, & A.-H. Tan (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence: 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 62–77). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 24). Scientists Discover Secret To Butterfly’s Invisible Wings. 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. (2014). Oil and Gas Transportation: Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipeline Safety (No. GAO-14-667). 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

Gruhl, D. K. (2010). Santa Rosa Adopt-A-Grandparent Plus program: A grant proposal project (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

Simon, J. (2016, December 9). French Lessons. New York Times, p. BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Nakar & Piran, 2011; Sarewitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nakar & Piran, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jeon et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Oceans
ISSN (print)	2169-9275
ISSN (online)	2169-9291
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