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

Lundstrom, C. C.: Rapid diffusive infiltration of sodium into partially molten peridotite, Nature, 403, 527–530, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siliciano, J. D. and Siliciano, R. F.: AIDS/HIV. Rekindled HIV infection, Science, 345, 1005–1006, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dobson, D. P., Meredith, P. G., and Boon, S. A.: Simulation of subduction zone seismicity by dehydration of serpentine, Science, 298, 1407–1410, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Cantuti-Castelvetri, L., Fitzner, D., Bosch-Queralt, M., Weil, M.-T., Su, M., Sen, P., Ruhwedel, T., Mitkovski, M., Trendelenburg, G., Lütjohann, D., Möbius, W., and Simons, M.: Defective cholesterol clearance limits remyelination in the aged central nervous system, Science, 359, 684–688, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigorenko, Y. N., Chilingar, G. V., Sobolev, V. S., Andiyeva, T. A., and Zhukova, L. I.: Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

Pawley, J. B. (Ed.): Handbook Of Biological Confocal Microscopy, Springer US, Boston, MA, XXVIII, 985 p pp., 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Mennella, J. A.: Alcohol Use During Lactation: Effects on the Mother-Infant Dyad, in: Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences, edited by: Watson, R. R., Preedy, V. R., and Zibadi, S., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 63–79, 2013.

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

Burst of Innovation Found in Jurassic Mammals:

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: Teenage Drug Use: Uncertain Linkages With Either Pregnancy or School Dropout, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koner, K. M.: The development and validation of an instrument to measure wind ensemble error detection skills among instrumental music educators, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012.

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

Walsh, M. W.: Ex-Insurer Says ‘Perfect Scheme’ Bilks Medicare, New York Times, 15th May, A1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lundstrom, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lundstrom, 2000; Siliciano and Siliciano, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Siliciano and Siliciano, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cantuti-Castelvetri et al., 2018)

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