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

Hastings, A. (2003). Metapopulation persistence with age-dependent disturbance or succession. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1525–1526.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margueron, R., & Reinberg, D. (2011). The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life. Nature, 469(7330), 343–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luce, C. H., Abatzoglou, J. T., & Holden, Z. A. (2013). The missing mountain water: slower westerlies decrease orographic enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1360–1364.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hiratsuka, T., Furihata, K., Ishikawa, J., Yamashita, H., Itoh, N., Seto, H., & Dairi, T. (2008). An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896), 1670–1673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliani, M. (2009). The Practical Guide to Wall Street. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chaudhuri, S., & Farzan, A. (Eds.). (2016). Computer Aided Verification: 28th International Conference, CAV 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-23, 2016, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 9779). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Enficiaud, R. (2010). Queue and Priority Queue Based Algorithms for Computing the Quasi-distance Transform. In A. Campilho & M. Kamel (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 35–44). 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

Luntz, S. (2016, October 13). Chimpanzee Mothers Filmed Teaching Their Children To Use Tools For The First Time. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimpanzee-mothers-filmed-teaching-their-children-to-use-tools-for-the-first-time/

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. (1980). Central Agencies’ Compliance With OMB Circular A-71, Transmittal Memorandum No. 1 (LCD-80-56-I). 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

Milner, M. (2009). An evaluation of the influence of case method instruction on the reflective thinking of MSW students [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Berkon, B. (2016, December 18). Jewish Player’s Card From 1914 Provokes a $125,000 Dispute. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hastings, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hastings, 2003; Margueron & Reinberg, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Margueron & Reinberg, 2011)
Three authors: (Luce et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hiratsuka et al., 2008)

About the journal

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