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

Marchio, E. A.: My metamorphosis, Science, 347, 206, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewcock, J. W. and Reed, R. R.: Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system, Science, 302, 2078–2079, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhlenkoetter, S., Wintermeyer, W., and Rodnina, M. V.: Different substrate-dependent transition states in the active site of the ribosome, Nature, 476, 351–354, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ozaki, M., Wada-Katsumata, A., Fujikawa, K., Iwasaki, M., Yokohari, F., Satoji, Y., Nisimura, T., and Yamaoka, R.: Ant nestmate and non-nestmate discrimination by a chemosensory sensillum, Science, 309, 311–314, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, S.: Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Nkonya, E., Mirzabaev, A., and von Braun, J. (Eds.): Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development, 1st ed. 2016., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVIII, 686 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Caporuscio, M., D’Angelo, M., Grassi, V., and Mirandola, R.: Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Decentralized Self-adaptive Service Assembly, in: Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: 5th IFIP WG 2.14 European Conference, ESOCC 2016, Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2016, Proceedings, edited by: Aiello, M., Johnsen, E. B., Dustdar, S., and Georgievski, I., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 53–68, 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

Gibbon Language Decoded: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gibbon-language-decoded/, 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: Acid Rain: Delays and Management Changes in the Federal Research Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hinckley, M.: Socioecological factors that affect adolescent nervousness and depression, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Kanter, J.: E.U. Plans Big Increase in Military Spending, New York Times, 30th November, A12, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marchio, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lewcock and Reed, 2003; Marchio, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lewcock and Reed, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ozaki et al., 2005)

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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