How to format your references using the Annales Geophysicae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annales Geophysicae. 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

Zimmer, C.: EVOLUTION: Parasites Make Scaredy-Rats Foolhardy, Science, 289, 525b–7b, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro, A. and Barton, N. H.: Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence--accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes, Science, 300, 321–324, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freckleton, R. P., Sutherland, W. J., and Watkinson, A. R.: Ecology. Deciding the future of GM crops in Europe, Science, 302, 994–996, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Stoleru, D., Peng, Y., Agosto, J., and Rosbash, M.: Coupled oscillators control morning and evening locomotor behaviour of Drosophila, Nature, 431, 862–868, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D. A.: Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

Kragler, F. and Hülskamp, M. (Eds.): Short and Long Distance Signaling, Springer, New York, NY, VIII, 188 p pp., 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Knoop, V. L., van Zuylen, H. J., and Hoogendoorn, S. P.: Microscopic Traffic Behaviour near Incidents, in: Transportation and Traffic Theory 2009: Golden Jubilee: Papers selected for presentation at ISTTT18, a peer reviewed series since 1959, edited by: Lam, W. H. K., Wong, S. C., and Lo, H. K., Springer US, Boston, MA, 75–97, 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 Annales Geophysicae.

Blog post

Museum Plaster Model was Actually the Fossil of a New Ichthyosaur Species: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/museum-plaster-model-was-actually-fossil-new-ichthyosaur-species/, 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: Health Information Technology: CMS Took Steps to Improve Its Beneficiary Eligibility Verification System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Waldron, K. D.: The Influence of Leadership Emotional Intelligence on Employee Engagement, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2017.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N.: By Focusing on Syria, Putin Is Catering to an Audience at Home, New York Times, 27th September, A14, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmer, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Navarro and Barton, 2003; Zimmer, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Navarro and Barton, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stoleru et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annales Geophysicae
Abbreviation	Ann. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	0992-7689
ISSN (online)	1432-0576
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Atmospheric Science Geology Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics