Always ask your instructor what citation style should be used for research projects. See below for links to helpful resources.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by 
MLA Handbook by 
The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA Update by One of the two most commonly used citation styles for Oceanography was developed by the American Geophysical Union (https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html) and is referred to as AGU Style Guide. The AGU Style Guide follows the American Psychological Association (APA) style guide’s grammar, punctuation, table formatting, citations, and references – with some exceptions.
For the full AGU Style Guide visit, https://publications.agu.org/agu-grammar-and-style-guide/
For the brief AGU Style Guide visit, https://publications.agu.org/brief-guide-agu-style-grammar/
The other citation format is the Association for the Sciences of Liminology and Oceanography (ASLO) style that is based on this academic, peer-reviewed journal’s citation format, http://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1939-5590/about/author-guidelines.html.
RefMe (https://www.refme.com/acs-citation-machine/) is a bibliographic tool that can be used as an android app or as a website that can be accessed with a computer or tablet. RefMe can help you create and save AGU and ASLO citations and is the best free tool to help you create accurate citations in AGU and/or ASLO formats. You will need to go to the “view more guides" page (http://www.citethisforme.com/guides).
NoodleTools is a free citation and research assistant utility that can help with formatting citations in APA, Chicago, and MLA Styles, which are accepted by most faculty at the college, and supported by tutors and librarians. The APA format is used for most science, technical, social, and behaviorial science courses. Please confirm with your instructor what style is required for your assignments.