How to format your references using the Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Penn RL (2007) Chemistry. Resolving an elusive structure. Science 316:1704–1705

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradshaw HD, Schemske DW (2003) Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers. Nature 426:176–178

A journal article with 3 authors

Reyes-Lamothe R, Sherratt DJ, Leake MC (2010) Stoichiometry and architecture of active DNA replication machinery in Escherichia coli. Science 328:498–501

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cantuti-Castelvetri L, Fitzner D, Bosch-Queralt M, et al (2018) Defective cholesterol clearance limits remyelination in the aged central nervous system. Science 359:684–688

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheldrake P (2014) The Spiritual City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Prentiss A, Kuijt I, Chatters JC (eds) (2009) Macroevolution in Human Prehistory: Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Heshmati A, Abolhosseini S, Altmann J (2015) Regulatory Frameworks for Renewable Energy Sources. In: Abolhosseini S, Altmann J (eds) The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment. Springer, Singapore, pp 65–83

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 Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Why Do Men Have Nipples? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-men-have-nipples/. 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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Implementation Is Under Way, but Enhanced Technical Oversight and Performance Measures Are Needed. 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

Lindsey MM (2010) Sampling frequency for semi-arid streams and rivers: Implications for national parks in the Sonoran Desert Network. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Philipps D (2017) ‘I Would Love for My President to Meet Me.’ New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Penn 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bradshaw and Schemske 2003; Penn 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bradshaw and Schemske 2003)
Three or more authors: (Cantuti-Castelvetri et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica
Abbreviation	Acta Geod. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	2213-5812
ISSN (online)	2213-5820
Scope	Geology Geophysics Building and Construction

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