How to format your references using the Advances in Radio Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Radio Science. 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 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

Frey, P. A.: Enzymology. Coenzymes and radicals, Science, 294, 2489–2490, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, J. K. M. and Hovmøller, M. S.: Aerial dispersal of pathogens on the global and continental scales and its impact on plant disease, Science, 297, 537–541, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arakawa, H., Hauschild, J., and Buerstedde, J.-M.: Requirement of the activation-induced deaminase (AID) gene for immunoglobulin gene conversion, Science, 295, 1301–1306, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Berry, N., Davis, C., Jenkins, A., Wood, D., Minor, P., Schild, G., Bottiger, M., Holmes, H., and Almond, N.: Vaccine safety. Analysis of oral polio vaccine CHAT stocks, Nature, 410, 1046–1047, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulkarni, S. and Harman, G.: An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Maalej, W. and Thurimella, A. K. (Eds.): Managing Requirements Knowledge, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XV, 398 p pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Pattard, M., Römbke, J., and Moser, T.: Range of Reference Tests in Aquatic Tests, in: Ecotoxicological Characterization of Waste: Results and Experiences of an International Ring Test, edited by: Moser, H. and Römbke, J., Springer, New York, NY, 61–70, 2009.

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 Advances in Radio Science.

Blog post

Volunteers Needed To Find All The Polygonal Ridges Of Mars: https://www.iflscience.com/space/volunteers-needed-to-find-all-the-polygonal-ridges-of-mars/, last access: 30 October 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: Mass Transit: Use of Alternative Fuels in Transit Buses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tripputi, M. T.: Use of mediation in designing clinical trials with two primary endpoints, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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

Cooper, M.: Carmen de Lavallade Skips Trump Reception, New York Times, 17th August, C3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frey, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Hovmøller, 2002; Frey, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Hovmøller, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Berry et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Radio Science
Abbreviation	Adv. Radio Sci.
ISSN (print)	1684-9965
ISSN (online)	1684-9973
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