How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysical Research citation style

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

Wesnousky, S. G. (2006). Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures. Nature, 444(7117), 358–360.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, N., & Chouard, T. (2009). Neurotechniques. Nature, 461(7266), 899.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hull, P. M., Darroch, S. A. F., & Erwin, D. H. (2015). Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems. Nature, 528(7582), 345–351.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qi, C., Zhang, H., Liu, L., Yang, R., Yang, Y., Kang, T., et al. (2014). Analysis of interactions between SNARE proteins using imaging ellipsometer coupled with microfluidic array. Scientific Reports, 4, 5341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, Z. N., & Chia, M. Y. W. (2006). Broadband Planar Antennas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

McLysaght, A., & Huson, D. H. (Eds.). (2005). Comparative Genomics: RECOMB 2005 International Workshop, RCG 2005, Dublin, Ireland, September 18-20, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3678). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stadtmüller, S., Cardoso, J., & Junghans, M. (2015). Service Semantics. In J. Cardoso, H. Fromm, S. Nickel, G. Satzger, R. Studer, & C. Weinhardt (Eds.), Fundamentals of Service Systems (pp. 137–178). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Geophysical Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, August 6). Surfing Seal Will Make Your Day. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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). Highway Projects--Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects as of April 30, 2004 (No. GAO-04-935R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson, P. M. (2012). Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain (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

Barron, J. (2017, September 10). Celebrating a Honey Harvest in the Center of Hudson Yards. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wesnousky, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gray & Chouard, 2009; Wesnousky, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Gray & Chouard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res.
ISSN (print)	0148-0227
ISSN (online)	2156-2202
Scope	Aquatic Science Forestry Soil Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Atmospheric Science Earth-Surface Processes Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics Oceanography Palaeontology Space and Planetary Science Ecology Water Science and Technology