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

Malakoff, D.: Gas revolution. The gas surge. Introduction, Science, 344, 1464–1467, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schubert, E. F. and Kim, J. K.: Solid-state light sources getting smart, Science, 308, 1274–1278, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Houstis, N., Rosen, E. D., and Lander, E. S.: Reactive oxygen species have a causal role in multiple forms of insulin resistance, Nature, 440, 944–948, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Shergill, S. S., Bays, P. M., Frith, C. D., and Wolpert, D. M.: Two eyes for an eye: the neuroscience of force escalation, Science, 301, 187, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allerton, D.: Principles of Flight Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2009.

An edited book

Maruhn, J. A.: Simple Models of Many-Fermion Systems, edited by: Reinhard, P.-G. and Suraud, E., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XI, 279 p pp., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Daszkowska-Golec, A.: The Role of Abscisic Acid in Drought Stress: How ABA Helps Plants to Cope with Drought Stress, in: Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2: Molecular and Genetic Perspectives, edited by: Hossain, M. A., Wani, S. H., Bhattacharjee, S., Burritt, D. J., and Tran, L.-S. P., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 123–151, 2016.

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

Ancient Chinese Cave Writing Describes Social Impacts of Climate Change: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ancient-chinese-cave-writing-describes-social-impacts-climate-change/, 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: Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Copeland, A. D.: A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2013.

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

Robertson, C. and Walsh, M. W.: Debt Crisis? Bankruptcy Fears? See Jefferson County, Ala, New York Times, 30th July, A13, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Malakoff, 2014; Schubert and Kim, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schubert and Kim, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Shergill et al., 2003)

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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