How to format your references using the Journal of Geosciences citation style

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

Köhling R (2002) Neuroscience. GABA becomes exciting. Science 298:1350–1351

A journal article with 2 authors

Conradt L, Roper TJ (2003) Group decision-making in animals. Nature 421:155–158

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogina B, Helfand SL, Frankel S (2002) Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science 298:1745

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Losos JB, Schoener TW, Langerhans RB, Spiller DA (2006) Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection. Science 314:1111

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O, Petit J-P, Gurle D (2005) Beyond VoIP Protocols. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hossain J, Mahmud A (eds) (2014) Renewable Energy Integration: Challenges and Solutions. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Fontijne D, Dorst L (2011) Reconstructing Rotations and Rigid Body Motions from Exact Point Correspondences Through Reflections. In: Dorst L, Lasenby J (eds) Guide to Geometric Algebra in Practice. Springer, London, pp 63–78

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 Geosciences.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Doubt Cast On Research Claiming Chimps Can Learn New “Accents.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/doubt-cast-research-claiming-chimps-can-learn-new-accents/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1985) Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Borgman GA (2017) Loneliness and the Hermitic Psyche. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Köhling 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Köhling 2002; Conradt and Roper 2003).

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

Two authors: (Conradt and Roper 2003)
Three or more authors: (Losos et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geosciences
ISSN (print)	1802-6222
ISSN (online)	1803-1943
Scope

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