How to format your references using the Geodesy and Geodynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geodesy and Geodynamics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

N. Le Bot, Developmental biology: Earn your wings, Nature. 519 (2015) 420.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.-M. Ding, Y.-Q. Ma, Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Clanet, F. Hersen, L. Bocquet, Secrets of successful stone-skipping, Nature. 427 (2004) 29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Mendillo, S. Laurent, J. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, J. Konrad, W.C. Karl, The sources of sodium escaping from Io revealed by spectral high definition imaging, Nature. 448 (2007) 330–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

U.L. Rohde, G.C. Jain, A.K. Poddar, A.K. Ghosh, Introduction to Integral Calculus, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

R.F. Poell, M. van Woerkom, eds., Supporting Workplace Learning: Towards Evidence-based Practice, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.O. Idowu, Pathologists’ Roles in Molecular Oncology Testing of Solid Tumors, in: M.O. Idowu, C.I. Dumur, C.T. Garrett (Eds.), Molecular Oncology Testing for Solid Tumors: A Pragmatic Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 139–152.

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 Geodesy and Geodynamics.

Blog post

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K. Hamilton, How An Army Of “Super Recognizers” Could Help Spot Criminals And Missing Persons, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-an-army-of-super-recognizers-could-help-spot-criminals-and-missing-persons/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Transportation Infrastructure: Urban Transportation Planning Can Better Address Modal Trade-offs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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V.R. Schick, Examining the vulva: The relationship between female genital aesthetic perceptions and gynecological care, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Justices Take Up Battle Over Exxon Valdez Damages, New York Times. (2008) A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Geodesy and Geodynamics
Abbreviation	Geod. Geodyn.
ISSN (print)	1674-9847
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