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 (JOG). 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ramchandani P (2004) A question of balance. Nature 430(6998), 401–402.
A journal article with 2 authors
Lee SC and Lee SJ (2014) Uptake of liquid from wet surfaces by the brush-tipped proboscis of a butterfly. Scientific reports 4, 6934.
A journal article with 3 authors
Bryant P, Nunes T and Snaith R (2000) Children learn an untaught rule of spelling. Nature 403(6766), 157–158.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Yamamoto M, Stopa M, Tokura Y, Hirayama Y and Tarucha S (2006) Negative Coulomb drag in a one-dimensional wire. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5784), 204–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Stacey D (2008) Aeronautical Radio Communication Systems and Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Corchado E, Yin H, Botti V and Fyfe C eds. (2006) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006: 7th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Filus JK and Filus LZ (2008) Some Alternative Approaches to System Reliability Modeling. Pham H ed. Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design. Springer, London, 101–135.

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
O`Callaghan J (2016) China Refuels Satellite In Space For The First Time. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-refuels-satellite-in-space-for-the-first-time/.

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 (1975) Line-item Control of Contractors’ Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs. PSAD-76-54. 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
Whidby MA (2012) Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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
Wagner J (2016) Backup Catcher’s Unlikely Three-Run Blast Helps Nationals Even Series. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ramchandani, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ramchandani, 2004; Lee and Lee, 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Lee and Lee, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Yamamoto and others, 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Glaciology
AbbreviationJ. Glaciol.
ISSN (print)0022-1430
ScopeEarth-Surface Processes

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