How to format your references using the Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems. 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

Feldheim, D. L.: Chemistry. The new face of catalysis, Science, 316, 699–700, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baker, R. P. and Urban, S.: Cytosolic extensions directly regulate a rhomboid protease by modulating substrate gating, Nature, 523, 101–105, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Yang, Y., and Ashwell, J. D.: TNF-RII and c-IAP1 mediate ubiquitination and degradation of TRAF2, Nature, 416, 345–347, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Tsao, D. Y., Freiwald, W. A., Tootell, R. B. H., and Livingstone, M. S.: A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells, Science, 311, 670–674, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, K.: Sustainable and Green Electrochemical Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

Mishra, R., Mahoney, M. W., Sato, Y., Hovanski, Y., and Verma, R. (Eds.): Friction Stir Welding and Processing VII, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XI, 362 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng, H., Feng, X.-T., Chen, Z., Hudson, J. A., and Wang, Y.: ISRM Suggested Method for Reporting Rock Laboratory Test Data in Electronic Format, in: The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characterization, Testing and Monitoring: 2007-2014, edited by: Ulusay, R., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 57–94, 2015.

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 Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems.

Blog post

From Perspiration To World Domination – The Extraordinary Science Of Sweat: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/from-perspiration-to-world-domination-the-extraordinary-science-of-sweat/, 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: Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adaligil, E.: Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Paulson, M.: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Is Closing on Broadway, New York Times, 6th September, C3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldheim, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baker and Urban, 2015; Feldheim, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Baker and Urban, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Tsao et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
ISSN (print)	2193-0856
ISSN (online)	2193-0864
Scope	Atmospheric Science Geology Oceanography