How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Geophysics. 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

Bonetta, L., 2010. Protein-protein interactions: Interactome under construction. Nature 468, 851–854.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry, C.J., Peterson, C.L., 2002. Transcription. Unlocking the gates to gene expression. Science 295, 1847–1848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greene, C.H., Monger, B.C., McGarry, L.P., 2009. Ecology. Some like it cold. Science 324, 733–734.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yachida, S., Jones, S., Bozic, I., Antal, T., Leary, R., Fu, B., Kamiyama, M., Hruban, R.H., Eshleman, J.R., Nowak, M.A., Velculescu, V.E., Kinzler, K.W., Vogelstein, B., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C.A., 2010. Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer. Nature 467, 1114–1117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Asif, S.Z., 2010. Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Presutti, V., Blomqvist, E., Troncy, R., Sack, H., Papadakis, I., Tordai, A. (Eds.), 2014. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Strizhov, M., Ray, I., 2014. Multi-keyword Similarity Search over Encrypted Cloud Data, in: Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Cuppens, F., Jajodia, S., Abou El Kalam, A., Sans, T. (Eds.), ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 29th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-4, 2014. Proceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 52–65.

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 Journal of Applied Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015. Awesome Animation Shows You What Colorblind People See [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-do-colours-look-colour-blind/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Federal Bureau of Investigation: Actions Taken to Address Most Procurement Recommendations (No. GAO-11-794). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oparnica, D., 2013. The role of nurses in health care reform: A project report (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., de la MERCED, M.J., 2014. Detroit Plan Is Said to Split Creditors Into 2 Groups. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonetta, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bonetta, 2010; Fry and Peterson, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fry and Peterson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yachida et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Geophysics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Geophy.
ISSN (print)	0926-9851
Scope	Geophysics