How to format your references using the Ocean Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ocean Dynamics. 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

Abbott A (2000) Hunt for Higgs particle wins time for CERN collider. Nature 407:276

A journal article with 2 authors

Tumer EC, Brainard MS (2007) Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of “crystallized” adult birdsong. Nature 450:1240–1244

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharp PM, Rayner JC, Hahn BH (2013) Evolution. Great apes and zoonoses. Science 340:284–286

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cohen JC, Kiss RS, Pertsemlidis A, et al (2004) Multiple rare alleles contribute to low plasma levels of HDL cholesterol. Science 305:869–872

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemberger P, Morel M (2012) Managing Complexity of Information Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Matsagar V (ed) (2015) Advances in Structural Engineering: Mechanics, Volume One. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Haag R (2014) Quantum Events and Irreversibility. In: Albeverio S, Blanchard P (eds) Direction of Time. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 31–34

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 Ocean Dynamics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Teenager On Work Experience Discovers An Exoplanet. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Development Schedule Should Be Changed to Reduce Risks. 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

Bryant MG (2017) The Development of the Massive Open Online Course Virtual Learning Environment Scale (MVLE) and Model to Measure Satisfaction of MOOC Online Learning Courses in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Barry E, Kishkovsky S (2012) Russian Turnout Includes Thousands of Eager Election Observers. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2000; Tumer and Brainard 2007).

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

Two authors: (Tumer and Brainard 2007)
Three or more authors: (Cohen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ocean Dynamics
Abbreviation	Ocean Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1616-7341
ISSN (online)	1616-7228
Scope	Oceanography