How to format your references using the History of Geo- and Space Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Poitrasson, F.: Geochemistry. Probes of the ancient and the inaccessible, Science, 323, 882–883, 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stengel, M. and Spaldin, N. A.: Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors, Nature, 443, 679–682, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butterworth, B., Varma, S., and Laurillard, D.: Dyscalculia: from brain to education, Science, 332, 1049–1053, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Pregueiro, A. M., Liu, Q., Baker, C. L., Dunlap, J. C., and Loros, J. J.: The Neurospora checkpoint kinase 2: a regulatory link between the circadian and cell cycles, Science, 313, 644–649, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McPhee, P.: A Companion to the French Revolution, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, 2012.

An edited book

Villafuerte, J. (Ed.): Modern Cold Spray: Materials, Process, and Applications, 1st ed. 2015., Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 429 p. 293 illus., 120 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ascher, W. and Mirovitskaya, N.: Grabbing Assets and Opportunities, in: Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development, edited by: Mirovitskaya, N., Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 81–94, 2016.

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 History of Geo- and Space Sciences.

Blog post

Check Out This Jetpack Inventor Flying Around The Statue Of Liberty: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/check-out-jetpack-inventor-flying-around-statue-liberty0/, 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: 1998 NASA Budget: Review of Selected Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Park, K.-S.: Transcriptional Regulation In The Respiratory Epithelium During Development And Repair, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.

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

Rich, N.: Just Roll, Baby, New York Times, 28th February, MM24, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Poitrasson, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Poitrasson, 2009; Stengel and Spaldin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Stengel and Spaldin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pregueiro et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	History of Geo- and Space Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Geo Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	2190-5010
ISSN (online)	2190-5029
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Earth and Planetary Sciences