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

Hambley, T.W., 2007. Chemistry. Metal-based therapeutics. Science 318, 1392–1393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Quasdorf, K.W., Overman, L.E., 2014. Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of quaternary carbon stereocentres. Nature 516, 181–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levin, E.J., Quick, M., Zhou, M., 2009. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of the kidney urea transporter. Nature 462, 757–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hensel, K.O., Boland, V., Postberg, J., Zilbauer, M., Heuschkel, R., Vogel, S., Gödde, D., Wirth, S., Jenke, A.C., 2014. Differential expression of mucosal trefoil factors and mucins in pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases. Sci. Rep. 4, 7343.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B., Herrenknecht, M., Maidl, U., Wehrmeyer, G., 2012. Mechanised Shield Tunnelling. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kremer, F. (Ed.), 2014. Dynamics in Geometrical Confinement, Advances in Dielectrics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Burau, V., Dahl, H.M., 2013. Trajectories of Change in Danish Long Term Care Policies—Reproduction by Adaptation through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Reforms, in: Ranci, C., Pavolini, E. (Eds.), Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe: Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–95.

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., 2016. Scientists Finally Understand The 100-Year-Old Mystery Of This Sea Blob [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-finally-understand-the-100yearold-mystery-of-this-sea-blob/ (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, 2004. Computer-Based Patient Records: Subcommittee Questions Concerning VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of Health Data (No. GAO-04-691R). 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

Skinner, M., 2008. Enamel -dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Jacoby, S., 2013. Keep the Gates of Paradise Open. New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hambley, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hambley, 2007; Quasdorf and Overman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Quasdorf and Overman, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hensel et al., 2014)

About the journal

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