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

McCune, J. M. (2001). The dynamics of CD4+ T-cell depletion in HIV disease. Nature, 410(6831), 974–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bakkenist, C. J., & Kastan, M. B. (2003). DNA damage activates ATM through intermolecular autophosphorylation and dimer dissociation. Nature, 421(6922), 499–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill, M. S., Hitchcock, P. B., & Pongtavornpinyo, R. (2006). A linear homocatenated compound containing six indium centers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1904–1907.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roach, J. C., Glusman, G., Smit, A. F. A., Huff, C. D., Hubley, R., Shannon, P. T., et al. (2010). Analysis of genetic inheritance in a family quartet by whole-genome sequencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 636–639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krishnan, V. (2006). Probability and Random Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ratajczak, M. Z. (Ed.). (2014). Adult Stem Cell Therapies: Alternatives to Plasticity. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Elgazzar, A. H., & Elmonayeri, M. (2006). Inflammation. In A. H. Elgazzar (Ed.), The Pathophysiologic Basis of Nuclear Medicine (pp. 67–89). 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: Space Physics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, August 27). Watch What Happens When You Put A Red-Hot Nickel Ball On Ice. 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). Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges for Transforming Into a High-Performing Organization (No. GAO-04-770T). 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

Lowry, L. A. (2017). Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study (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

Hodara, S. (2016, January 3). A Handmade Sea of Sparkling Glass. New York Times, p. WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCune, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bakkenist & Kastan, 2003; McCune, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bakkenist & Kastan, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Roach et al., 2010)

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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