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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Figer, D. F.: Astrophysics: Monster star found hiding in plain sight, Nature, 515, 42–44, 2014.
A journal article with 2 authors
Ezzati, M. and Riboli, E.: Can noncommunicable diseases be prevented? Lessons from studies of populations and individuals, Science, 337, 1482–1487, 2012.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kashlinsky, A., Odenwald, S., and Hogan, C. J.: Looking behind the stars, Science, 289, 246–247, 2000.
A journal article with 100 or more authors
Henrich, J., Ensminger, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J. C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., and Ziker, J.: Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment, Science, 327, 1480–1484, 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Alvarez, P. J. J. and Illman, W. A.: Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.
An edited book
Catalano, O.: Fundamentals in Oncologic Ultrasound: Sonographic Imaging and Intervention in the Cancer Patient, edited by: Nunziata, A. and Siani, A., Springer, Milano, XV, 375 p pp., 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
Murty, M. N. and Panda, M.: Current Status of Environmental and Economic Accounting: Review of Some Countries Experiences and Way Forward for India, in: Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages, edited by: Ghosh, N., Mukhopadhyay, P., Shah, A., and Panda, M., Springer India, New Delhi, 51–85, 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 Annales Geophysicae.

Blog post
Why Do We Itch? https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-we-itch/, 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: Recent Development in Science and Technology: Progress and Concerns, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Luse, K. M.: Invariants of knots, graphs, and Feynman diagrams, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2008.

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
Poniewozik, J.: Good Characters Are Hard to Find, New York Times, 13th July, C10, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Figer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Figer, 2014; Ezzati and Riboli, 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Ezzati and Riboli, 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Henrich et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal titleAnnales Geophysicae
AbbreviationAnn. Geophys.
ISSN (print)0992-7689
ISSN (online)1432-0576
ScopeEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Atmospheric Science
Geology
Space and Planetary Science
Astronomy and Astrophysics

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