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

Trivedi BP (2012) Neuroscience: hardwired for taste. Nature 486:S7-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho L, Crabtree GR (2010) Chromatin remodelling during development. Nature 463:474–484

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski JA, Sloutsky VM, Heckler AF (2008) Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math. Science 320:454–455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Salzman NH, Ghosh D, Huttner KM, et al (2003) Protection against enteric salmonellosis in transgenic mice expressing a human intestinal defensin. Nature 422:522–526

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chase CW Jr (2013) Demand-Driven Forecasting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Amer-Yahia S, Bellahsène Z, Hunt E, et al (eds) (2006) Database and XML Technologies: 4th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2006 Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Michel SH, Mueller DH (2015) Vitamins and Minerals. In: Yen EH, Leonard AR (eds) Nutrition in Cystic Fibrosis: A Guide for Clinicians. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–85

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 E (2014) Ignore the IQ Test: Your Level of Intelligence is Not Fixed for Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/ignore-iq-test-your-level-intelligence-not-fixed-life/. 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 (2015) Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports. 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

Miramontes AJ (2017) Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

St. John Kelly E (1998) Building a Business, Quarter by Quarter. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ho and Crabtree 2010; Trivedi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ho and Crabtree 2010)
Three or more authors: (Salzman et al. 2003)

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