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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Abbott, A. (2001). WHO plans study of Gulf War fallout. Nature, 413(6852), 97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom, E. F. Y., & Murray, A. W. (2014). Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 94–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bartels, T., Choi, J. G., & Selkoe, D. J. (2011). α-Synuclein occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation. Nature, 477(7362), 107–110.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wei, W., Xu, C., Wu, L., Wang, J., Ren, J., & Qu, X. (2014). Non-enzymatic-browning-reaction: a versatile route for production of nitrogen-doped carbon dots with tunable multicolor luminescent display. Scientific Reports, 4, 3564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff, N. P., & Davletshin, A. (2010). A Guide to Safe Material and Chemical Handling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Voronkov, A. (Ed.). (2008). Rewriting Techniques and Applications: 19th International Conference, RTA 2008 Hagenberg, Austria, July 15-17, 2008 Proceedings (Vol. 5117). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni, A., Saleri, F., & Gervasio, P. (2012). Sistemi lineari. In F. Saleri & P. Gervasio (Eds.), Calcolo Scientifico: Esercizi e problemi risolti con MATLAB e Octave (pp. 137–192). Milano: Springer.

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: Planets.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, September 7). Hawks Help Protect Hummingbird Nests From Ravenous Jays. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hawks-help-protect-hummingbird-nests-ravenous-jays/

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. (2005). Highway Congestion: Intelligent Transportation Systems’ Promise for Managing Congestion Falls Short, and DOT Could Better Facilitate Their Strategic Use (No. GAO-05-943). 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

Lotrecchiano, G. R. (2012). Social Mechanisms of Team Science: A Descriptive Case Study Using a Multilevel Systems Perspective Employing Reciprocating Structuration Theory (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

Billard, M. (2013, December 12). Brooklyn Is Roasting by an Open Fire. New York Times, p. E11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Hom & Murray, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hom & Murray, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Planets
ISSN (print)	2169-9097
ISSN (online)	2169-9100
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