How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysics and Engineering. 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

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Lane J 2010 Let’s make science metrics more scientific Nature 464 488–9

A journal article with 2 authors

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Ngai J T and Srivastava D S 2006 Predators accelerate nutrient cycling in a bromeliad ecosystem Science 314 963

A journal article with 3 authors

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Rust M J, Golden S S and O’Shea E K 2011 Light-driven changes in energy metabolism directly entrain the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator Science 331 220–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Reichart P, Datzmann G, Hauptner A, Hertenberger R, Wild C and Dollinger G 2004 Three-dimensional hydrogen microscopy in diamond Science 306 1537–40

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Sauter M 2014 From GSM to LTE-Advanced (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

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Dikshit K R 2014 North-East India: Land, People and Economy ed J K Dikshit (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

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Hamilton D and Zufiaurre B 2014 New Education for New Times Blackboards and Bootstraps: Revisioning Education and Schooling ed B Zufiaurre (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) pp 87–111

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 Geophysics and Engineering.

Blog post

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Andrew E 2015 In Defence Of Sex Machines: Why Trying To Ban Sex Robots Is Wrong IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 1991 Delays in Critical Air Traffic Control Modernization Projects Require Increased FAA Attention to Existing Systems (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

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Shakya M 2017 Planter Boxes and Rain Gardens for Urban Stormwater Management: Performance of Extended Field Application Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University)

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

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Shear M D and Goodnough A 2017 President Is Preparing to Declare a National Emergency Over the Opioid Epidemic New York Times A13

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysics and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1742-2132
ISSN (online)	1742-2140
Scope	Geology Geophysics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law