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

Craelius, W. (2002). The bionic man: restoring mobility. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5557), 1018–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sininger, Y. S., & Cone-Wesson, B. (2004). Asymmetric cochlear processing mimics hemispheric specialization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5690), 1581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bannani, A., Bobisch, C., & Möller, R. (2007). Ballistic electron microscopy of individual molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1824–1828.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rim, Y. A., Yi, H., Kim, Y., Park, N., Jung, H., Kim, J., et al. (2014). Self in vivo production of a synthetic biological drug CTLA4Ig using a minicircle vector. Scientific Reports, 4, 6935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, K. (2017). Sustainable and Green Electrochemical Science and Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Müller, J. P., Weyrich, M., & Bazzan, A. L. C. (Eds.). (2014). Multiagent System Technologies: 12th German Conference, MATES 2014, Stuttgart, Germany, September 23-25, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8732). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Khaleel, H., Singh, C., White, C., Al-Rizzo, H., & Mohan, S. (2015). Novel Wireless Systems for Telemedicine and Body Area Networks Applications. In G. Plantier, T. Schultz, A. Fred, & H. Gamboa (Eds.), Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 7th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 3-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 52–65). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, E. (2014, June 24). Could You Be Related To Genghis Khan? 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. (1999). Department of Transportation: Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects (No. OGC-99-50). 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

Gunathilaka, D. (2015). Compliance with dietary restrictions among African American older adults with chronic kidney disease in a nursing home setting (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

Feeney, K. (2009, November 29). Their Daily Flatbread. New York Times, p. NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Craelius, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Craelius, 2002; Sininger & Cone-Wesson, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sininger & Cone-Wesson, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Rim et al., 2014)

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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