How to format your references using the Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. 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

Storz, J. F.: Evolution. Genes for high altitudes, Science, 329, 40–41, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venters, B. J. and Pugh, B. F.: Genomic organization of human transcription initiation complexes, Nature, 502, 53–58, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riedel, I. H., Kruse, K., and Howard, J.: A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells, Science, 309, 300–303, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Loucks, C. J., Lü, Z., Dinerstein, E., Wang, H., Olson, D. M., Zhu, C., and Wang, D.: Ecology. Giant pandas in a changing landscape, Science, 294, 1465, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H.: Project Management Case Studies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

Garcke, J. and Pflüger, D. (Eds.): Sparse Grids and Applications - Munich 2012, Springer International Publishing, Cham, VIII, 344 p. 106 illus., 72 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Almond, R. G., Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Yan, D., and Williamson, D. M.: Basic Graph Theory and Graphical Models, in: Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment, edited by: Mislevy, R. J., Steinberg, L. S., Yan, D., and Williamson, D. M., Springer, New York, NY, 81–103, 2015.

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 Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics.

Blog post

Near Earth And Far Away, It’s Been An Exciting Year In Space:

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: Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Overcome To Achieve Success, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph, S.: A comprehensive evaluation of a school system’s grow your own principal preparation program, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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

Poniewozik, J.: Deadly, Stylish Comfort, New York Times, 18th April, C4, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Storz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Storz, 2010; Venters and Pugh, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Venters and Pugh, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Loucks et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Abbreviation	Nonlinear Process. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	1023-5809
ISSN (online)	1607-7946
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