How to format your references using the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, 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	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

Friedman, W. E. 2013. “Plant science. One genome, two ontogenies.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339 (6123): 1045–1046.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang, E. F., and M. M. Merzenich. 2003. “Environmental noise retards auditory cortical development.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300 (5618): 498–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginsburg, G. S., M. Angrist, and R. Cook-Deegan. 2006. “Public health. Genomics and medicine at a crossroads in Chernobyl.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 314 (5796): 62–63.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Amor, R., S. Mahajan, W. B. Amos, and G. McConnell. 2014. “Standing-wave-excited multiplanar fluorescence in a laser scanning microscope reveals 3D information on red blood cells.” Scientific reports, 4: 7359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal, S. V., and W. Lathrop. 2011. Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhiltsov, S. S., I. S. Zonn, and A. G. Kostianoy, eds. 2016. Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Trautschold, M., and G. Mazo. 2010. “Windows PC Setup.” BlackBerry Curve Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Curve 8520, 8530 and 8500 Series, edited by G. Mazo, S. Anglin, J. Markham, C. Andres, M. Beckner, E. Buckingham, G. Cornell, J. Gennick, J. Hassell, M. Lowman, M. Moodie, D. Parkes, J. Pepper, F. Pohlmann, D. Pundick, B. Renow-Clarke, D. Shakeshaft, M. Wade, T. Welsh, L. Becker, M. A. Fugate, C. Marcheso, P. Meador, R. Moore, and K. Stence, 67–104. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Coming To A River Near You: The Invasion Of The Intersex Demon Shrimp.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/coming-river-near-you-invasion-intersex-demon-shrimp/.

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. HHS-Supported Research on Violence Prevention. 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

Meng, W. 2014. “Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Billard, M. 2010. “Yoga’s Serious. Except When It’s Not.” New York Times, July 29, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chang and Merzenich 2003; Friedman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chang and Merzenich 2003)
Three or more authors: (Amor et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Waterway Port Coast. Ocean Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-950X
ISSN (online)	1943-5460
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Ocean Engineering Water Science and Technology