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

Parak, F. (2011). Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929-2011). Nature, 478(7369), 325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sazanov, L. A., & Hinchliffe, P. (2006). Structure of the hydrophilic domain of respiratory complex I from Thermus thermophilus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5766), 1430–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anuar, T. S., Salleh, F. M., & Moktar, N. (2014). Soil-transmitted helminth infections and associated risk factors in three Orang Asli tribes in Peninsular Malaysia. Scientific Reports, 4, 4101.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Brandon, C. M., Woodruff, J. D., Donnelly, J. P., & Sullivan, R. M. (2014). How unique was Hurricane Sandy? Sedimentary reconstructions of extreme flooding from New York Harbor. Scientific Reports, 4, 7366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

You, H., Jianjuan, X., & Xin, G. (2016). Radar Data Processing with Applications. John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Mazliak, L. (2009). Mathematicians at war: Volterra and his French colleagues in World War I (R. Tazzioli, Ed.; Vol. 22). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouziane, M. M., Bouiadjra, B. A. B., Benseddiq, N., Tabeti, E. M. H., Serier, B., & Benbarek, S. (2013). The Effects of Cracks Emanating from Micro-Void and Bone Inclusion in Cemented Total Hip Replacement. In A. Ochsner & H. Altenbach (Eds.), Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials (pp. 41–57). Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2015, February 22). Cheap Solar Cells Made From Shrimp Cells. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/shrimp-shells-solar-cells/

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. (1997). Federal-Aid Highway Program: Impact of the District of Columbia Emergency Highway Relief Act (RCED-97-162). 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

Cashion, A. T. (2010). Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, February 12). On Adele’s Big Night, She Lauds Beyoncé. 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 (Parak, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Parak, 2011; Sazanov & Hinchliffe, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sazanov & Hinchliffe, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Brandon et al., 2014)

About the journal

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