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

Koen D (2004) Nuts and bolts. Selling your skills. Nature 427:570

A journal article with 2 authors

Scholes RJ, Noble IR (2001) Climate change. Storing carbon on land. Science 294:1012–1013

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak MA, Tarnita CE, Wilson EO (2010) The evolution of eusociality. Nature 466:1057–1062

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Y, He X, Ouyang J, Yang H (2013) Palladium nanoparticles deposited on silanized halloysite nanotubes: synthesis, characterization and enhanced catalytic property. Sci Rep 3:2948

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith CL (2012) Distillation Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nalbantis G (2016) The Demand for International Football Telecasts in the United States. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Svenningsen SL (2008) Small RNA Control of Cell-to-Cell Communication in Vibrio Harveyi and Vibrio Cholerae. In: Skjeltorp AT, Belushkin AV (eds) Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 45–59

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 (2015) Baboons Don’t Play Follow The Leader – They’re Democratic Travellers. 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) Accounting System for Research and Development, Army Natick Laboratories. 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

Malet DS (2009) Foreign fighters: Transnational identity in civil conflicts. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Branch J (2017) Thinking About the Future in a Place Where Lives Ended. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Scholes and Noble 2001; Koen 2004).

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

Two authors: (Scholes and Noble 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2013)

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