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

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

Edgerton, D., 2011. In praise of Luddism. Nature 471, 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gribble, P.L., Scott, S.H., 2002. Overlap of internal models in motor cortex for mechanical loads during reaching. Nature 417, 938–941.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maruyama, M., Lam, K.P., Rajewsky, K., 2000. Memory B-cell persistence is independent of persisting immunizing antigen. Nature 407, 636–642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Black, G.J., Campbell, D.B., Carter, L.M., Ostro, S.J., 2004. Radar detection of Iapetus. Science 304, 553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz, R.G., 2009. Environmental Calculations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tkalčič, M., De Carolis, B., de Gemmis, M., Odić, A., Košir, A. (Eds.), 2016. Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services: Models, Evaluation and Applications, Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujishiro, T., Kobayashi, H., Bauer, T.W., 2008. Autograft Bone, in: Pietrzak, W.S. (Ed.), Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration: Biological Materials and Methods. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 65–79.

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 Geodynamics.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Why You Should Never Wear Cheap, Unfitted Contact Lenses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2016. High-Containment Laboratories: Actions Needed to Mitigate Risk of Potential Exposure and Release of Dangerous Pathogens (No. GAO-16-871T). 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

Dusenberry, W., 2017. Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Baker, A.L., 2014. Nebraska University Chief Is Chosen to Lead CUNY. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edgerton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Edgerton, 2011; Gribble and Scott, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gribble and Scott, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Black et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geodynamics
Abbreviation	J. Geodyn.
ISSN (print)	0264-3707
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics