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

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

Frenking, G. (2005). Chemistry. Building a quintuple bond. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5749), 796–797.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, B. H., & Kwon, J. W. (2014). Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Scientific Reports, 4, 4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Begley, C. G., Buchan, A. M., & Dirnagl, U. (2015). Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility. Nature, 525(7567), 25–27.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Balagaddé, F. K., You, L., Hansen, C. L., Arnold, F. H., & Quake, S. R. (2005). Long-term monitoring of bacteria undergoing programmed population control in a microchemostat. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5731), 137–140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lipiansky, E. (2012). Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schulz, M., & Paul, A. (Eds.). (2015). Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, L., Hedayat, A. S., & Wu, W. (2012). A Unified Model for Continuous and Categorical Data. In A. S. Hedayat & W. Wu (Eds.), Statistical Tools for Measuring Agreement (pp. 75–110). New York, NY: 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: Space Physics.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, May 23). Check Out These Awesome Pictures Of A Space Shuttle Tank’s Trip Through Los Angeles. 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. (1987). DOD’s Acquisition of the Composite Health Care System (No. T-IMTEC-87-3). 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

Herrlich, A. (2010). Transparency and medical interventions in vital statistics reports: Quantitative research and analysis (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

Vecsey, G. (2010, July 10). Stars as Teammates: Not a New Concept. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frenking, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Frenking, 2005; Kim & Kwon, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kim & Kwon, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Balagaddé et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys.
ISSN (print)	2169-9380
ISSN (online)	2169-9402
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