How to format your references using the Journal of Geodesy citation style

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

Lohmueller KE (2014) Evolution. On the origin of Peter Rabbit. Science 345:1000–1001

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaut BS, Ross-Ibarra J (2008) Selection on major components of angiosperm genomes. Science 320:484–486

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudon JC, Mathur ND, Midgley PA (2002) Charge-ordered ferromagnetic phase in La(0.5)Ca(0.5)MnO3. Nature 420:797–800

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jirawatnotai S, Hu Y, Michowski W, et al (2011) A function for cyclin D1 in DNA repair uncovered by protein interactome analyses in human cancers. Nature 474:230–234

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H (2005) Enzymkinetik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Pinedo HM, Smorenburg CH (eds) (2006) Drugs Affecting Growth of Tumours. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Hyslop-Margison E, Savarese J l. (2012) The Corporatization of the University. In: Mitchell RC, Moore SA (eds) Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 51–62

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 Geodesy.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Meet Viserion And Drogon: The New Ant Species Named After The Game Of Thrones Dragons. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1972) Employment Security Operations--The Impact of a Computerized Job Bank in Baltimore, Maryland. 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

Brecese JA (2012) Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Saslow L (2007) Suffolk Schools to Say Goodbye to DARE. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lohmueller 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gaut and Ross-Ibarra 2008; Lohmueller 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gaut and Ross-Ibarra 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jirawatnotai et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geodesy
Abbreviation	J. Geod.
ISSN (print)	0949-7714
ISSN (online)	1432-1394
Scope	Computers in Earth Sciences Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics