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

Serhan, C. N.: Pro-resolving lipid mediators are leads for resolution physiology, Nature, 510, 92–101, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morehouse, N. I. and Rutowski, R. L.: Comment on “Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators,” Science, 325, 1072; author reply 1072, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, B., Chen, J., and Singer, R. H.: Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins, Sci. Rep., 4, 3615, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Elde, N. C., Child, S. J., Geballe, A. P., and Malik, H. S.: Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry, Nature, 457, 485–489, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A.: IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

Park, Y. I. and Lee, S. K. (Eds.): New Perspectives on Aloe, Springer US, Boston, MA, X, 200 p. 85 illus., 21 illus. in color pp., 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Holmberg, K., Eriksson-Backa, K., and Ek, S.: Tweeting about Diabetes and Diets – Content and Conversational Connections, in: Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings, edited by: Saranto, K., Castrén, M., Kuusela, T., Hyrynsalmi, S., and Ojala, S., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 46–56, 2014.

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

Turning Diamonds’ Defects Into Long-Term 3-D Data Storage:

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: Athletic Department Profiles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slabaugh, J. L.: The Occurrence of Alternans and Arrhythmias in a Multicellular, Cardiac Preparation, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2012.

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

Lyman, R. and Walsh, M. W.: Struggling, San Jose Tests a Way to Cut Benefits, New York Times, 24th September, A1, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Serhan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Morehouse and Rutowski, 2009; Serhan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Morehouse and Rutowski, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Elde et al., 2009)

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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