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

Nicholls H (2009) Darwin 200: A flight of fancy. Nature 457:790–791

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodra E, Ganguly AR (2014) Asymmetry of projected increases in extreme temperature distributions. Sci Rep 4:5884

A journal article with 3 authors

Moynier F, Yin Q-Z, Schauble E (2011) Isotopic evidence of Cr partitioning into Earth’s core. Science 331:1417–1420

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Marchis F, Descamps P, Hestroffer D, Berthier J (2005) Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia. Nature 436:822–824

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kowalick TM (2004) Fatal Exit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kallsen J, Papapantoleon A (eds) (2016) Advanced Modelling in Mathematical Finance: In Honour of Ernst Eberlein. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Coelho J, Silva A, Gomes JP (2014) Parallelization of a Tridimensional Finite Element Program for Structural Behaviour Analysis. In: Lopes L, Žilinskas J, Costan A, et al. (eds) Euro-Par 2014: Parallel Processing Workshops: Euro-Par 2014 International Workshops, Porto, Portugal, August 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 36–47

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 D (2016) Stardust Trapped Deep Within The Ocean Reveals A 2.6-Million-Year-Old Mystery. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stardust-trapped-deep-within-the-ocean-reveals-a-26millionyearold-mystery/. 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 (1999) Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 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

Biller JT (2012) Cyber-Terrorism: Finding a Common Starting Point. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Wagner J (2017) Injuries and Ineffectiveness Lead the Mets to ‘Reorganize and Restructure.’ New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholls 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Nicholls 2009; Kodra and Ganguly 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kodra and Ganguly 2014)
Three or more authors: (Marchis et al. 2005)

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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