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

Rastan, S. (2015). Mary F. Lyon (1925-2014). Nature, 518(7537), 36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kundu, P., & Pettersson, S. (2014). Immunology: Mammalian watchdog targets bacteria. Nature, 512(7515), 377–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuck, A. L., Turner, S. M., & Liss, P. S. (2002). Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1151–1154.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tachibana, M., Sparman, M., Sritanaudomchai, H., Ma, H., Clepper, L., Woodward, J., et al. (2009). Mitochondrial gene replacement in primate offspring and embryonic stem cells. Nature, 461(7262), 367–372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barone, S., & Franco, E. L. (2012). Statistical and Managerial Techniques for Six Sigma Methodology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nguyen, N. T., Borzemski, L., Grzech, A., & Ali, M. (Eds.). (2008). New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2008 Wrocław, Poland, June 18-20, 2008 Proceedings (Vol. 5027). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu, S., Wang, W., & Ravishankar, C. V. (2006). Stochastically Consistent Caching and Dynamic Duty Cycling for Erratic Sensor Sources. In P. B. Gibbons, T. Abdelzaher, J. Aspnes, & R. Rao (Eds.), Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems: Second IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 18-20, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 67–84). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, D. (2017, March 30). Five Maps That Will Change How You See The World. 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. (1996). Job Corps: Comparison of Federal Program With State Youth Training Initiatives (No. HEHS-96-92). 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

Bagley, C. R. (2010). Pint-sized spectacles: American youth beauty queens and the power(ful) dynamic of the institutionalized pageant (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. (2006, August 26). Arts, Briefly; Fire Ravages a Russian Cathedral. New York Times, p. B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rastan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kundu & Pettersson, 2014; Rastan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kundu & Pettersson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tachibana et al., 2009)

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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