How to format your references using the Journal of Physical Oceanography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physical 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 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

Gumbsch, P., 2003: Materials science. Modeling strain hardening the hard way. Science, 301, 1857–1858.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zilles, K., and K. Amunts, 2012: Neuroscience. Segregation and wiring in the brain. Science, 335, 1582–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berson, D. M., F. A. Dunn, and M. Takao, 2002: Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock. Science, 295, 1070–1073.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Ogden, S. K., D. L. Fei, N. S. Schilling, Y. F. Ahmed, J. Hwa, and D. J. Robbins, 2008: G protein Galphai functions immediately downstream of Smoothened in Hedgehog signalling. Nature, 456, 967–970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sestina, J. E., 2016: Planning a Successful Future. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wei, S., 2013: Atlas of Bone Pathology. G.P. Siegal, Ed. Springer XV, 476 p. 802 illus., 629 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Molenaar, E. J., 2014: Status and Reform of International Arctic Fisheries Law. Arctic Marine Governance: Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation, E. Tedsen, S. Cavalieri, and R.A. Kraemer, Eds., Springer, 103–125.

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 Physical Oceanography.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017: Dwarf Galaxy Observations Make A Stronger Case For Dark Matter. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxy-observations-make-a-stronger-case-for-dark-matter/.

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, 1991: FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. 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

Kasun, K. K., 2010: Economic effectiveness of physician organizational models in a California integrated healthcare system. University of Phoenix.

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

Hartocollis, A., 2014: Long Island College Hospital Names Choice for the Future. New York Times, April 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gumbsch 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gumbsch 2003; Zilles and Amunts 2012).

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

Two authors: (Zilles and Amunts 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ogden et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physical Oceanography
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Oceanogr.
ISSN (print)	0022-3670
ISSN (online)	1520-0485
Scope	Oceanography