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

Cressey, D. (2011). Animal research: Battle scars. Nature, 470(7335), 452–453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rilling, J. K., & Young, L. J. (2014). The biology of mammalian parenting and its effect on offspring social development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6198), 771–776.

A journal article with 3 authors

De’ath, G., Lough, J. M., & Fabricius, K. E. (2009). Declining coral calcification on the Great Barrier Reef. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 116–119.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Patrick, G. N., Zukerberg, L., Nikolic, M., de La Monte, S., Dikkes, P., & Tsai, L.-H. (2001). reply: Neurobiologyp25 protein in neurodegeneration. Nature, 411(6839), 764–765.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, R., Fraser-King, G., & Schwaderer, W. D. (2006). Data Lifecycles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bryson, E. O., & Frost, E. A. M. (Eds.). (2012). Perioperative Addiction: Clinical Management of the Addicted Patient. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hans, E. W., & Vanberkel, P. T. (2012). Operating Theatre Planning and Scheduling. In R. Hall (Ed.), Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling (pp. 105–130). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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, E. (2015, July 27). The River Nile As Seen From Space. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/river-nile-aglow-seen-space/

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. (2003). Airline Labor Relations: Information on Trends and Impact of Labor Actions (No. GAO-03-652). 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

Duran, P. E. (2010). Factors and prevention strategies to fight childhood obesity (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Oestreich, J. R. (2017, January 20). A Man on a Mission, and Then Another. New York Times, p. AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cressey, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cressey, 2011; Rilling & Young, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rilling & Young, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Patrick et al., 2001)

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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