How to format your references using the Geodinamica Acta citation style

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

Lamb, S. (2001). Walking with producers. Nature, 412(6844), 277.

A journal article with 2 authors

von Zastrow, M., & Mostov, K. (2001). Signal transduction. A new thread in an intricate web. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1845–1847.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine, J. H., Lin, Y., & Elowitz, M. B. (2013). Functional roles of pulsing in genetic circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1193–1200.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, H., Dong, B., Zhang, Z., Zhang, H. F., & Sun, C. (2014). A transparent broadband ultrasonic detector based on an optical micro-ring resonator for photoacoustic microscopy. Scientific Reports, 4, 4496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone, R. (2012). The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Michalos, A. C. (Ed.). (2005). Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research: The Most Cited Articles Edited and Introduced by Alex C. Michalos (Vol. 26). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreinovich, V., & Shpak, M. (2008). Decomposable Aggregability in Population Genetics and Evolutionary Computations: Algorithms and Computational Complexity. In A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, & Y. Liang (Eds.), Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics (pp. 69–92). Springer.

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 Geodinamica Acta.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 5). Mercury: “First Rock From The Sun” In Transit. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mercury-first-rock-sun-transit/

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. (2014). High-Containment Laboratories: Recent Incidents of Biosafety Lapses (GAO-14-785T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kane, B. H. (2017). A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, September 22). ‘The Third Tenor’ Exits. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lamb, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lamb, 2001; von Zastrow & Mostov, 2001).

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

Two authors: (von Zastrow & Mostov, 2001)
Three authors: (Levine et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geodinamica Acta
ISSN (print)	0985-3111
ISSN (online)	1778-3593
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics