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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Glaciology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Benton TG (2007) Ecology. Managing farming’s footprint on biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5810), 341–342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sung S and Amasino RM (2004) Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3. Nature 427(6970), 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugden A, Smith J and Pennisi E (2008) The future of forests. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5882), 1435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jordan P, Fromme P, Witt HT, Klukas O, Saenger W and Krauss N (2001) Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I at 2.5 A resolution. Nature 411(6840), 909–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tiwari A, Gerhardt RA and Szutkowska M (2016) Advanced Ceramic Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kari J, Kutrib M and Malcher A eds. (2013) Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ehara T (2005) Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States. Welch A ed. The Professoriate: Profile of a Profession. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 59–69.

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 Glaciology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) There’s An Elephant In The Room. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theres-elephant-room/.

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 (2001) Information Technology: Leading Commercial Practices for Outsourcing of Services. GAO-02-214. 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

Burnley T (2012) Psychotherapist as Modern-Day Shaman. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Hay G, Doyle M and Pethokoukis J (2010) Planned U.S. Tax Might Hurt Europe’s Banks Less. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Sung and Amasino, 2004; Benton, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sung and Amasino, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jordan and others, 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Glaciology
Abbreviation	J. Glaciol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1430
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes