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

King, D. A.: Environment. Climate change science: adapt, mitigate, or ignore?, Science, 303, 176–177, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

McInerney, J. O. and Pisani, D.: Genetics. Paradigm for life, Science, 318, 1390–1391, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Georgellis, D., Kwon, O., and Lin, E. C.: Quinones as the redox signal for the arc two-component system of bacteria, Science, 292, 2314–2316, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Iwata, N., Sekiguchi, M., Hattori, Y., Takahashi, A., Asai, M., Ji, B., Higuchi, M., Staufenbiel, M., Muramatsu, S.-I., and Saido, T. C.: Global brain delivery of neprilysin gene by intravascular administration of AAV vector in mice, Sci. Rep., 3, 1472, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, F. and Kaiser, T.: Digital Signal Processing for RFID, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Czosnek, H. and Ghanim, M. (Eds.): Management of Insect Pests to Agriculture: Lessons Learned from Deciphering their Genome, Transcriptome and Proteome, Springer International Publishing, Cham, VIII, 290 p. 26 illus., 15 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Roberts, A. R. and Yeager, K. R.: Indicatori della predisposizione alla crisi da parte di una persona, in: Gli interventi sulla crisi: Una guida pratica, edited by: Yeager, K. R., Springer, Milano, 11–11, 2012.

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

Extraordinary Black-And-White Photos Of African Wildlife By Laurent Baheux: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extraordinary-black-and-white-photos-african-wildlife-laurent-baheux/, 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: Medicare: Post-Hearing Questions Related to Financial and Information Technology Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steinberg, J.: The Social Construction of Beauty: Body Modification Examined Through the Lens of Social Learning Theory, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 2015.

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

Kelly, M.: A Magazine Will Tell All About Bubba, New York Times, 4th February, A20, 1993.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (King, 2004; McInerney and Pisani, 2007).

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

Two authors: (McInerney and Pisani, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Iwata et al., 2013)

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