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

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

Bayry, J.: Journal club. An immunologist applauds a protein that prunes intolerant white blood cells, Nature, 456, 285, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phipps, R. J. and Gaunt, M. J.: A meta-selective copper-catalyzed C-H bond arylation, Science, 323, 1593–1597, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemecek, J. C., Wüthrich, M., and Klein, B. S.: Global control of dimorphism and virulence in fungi, Science, 312, 583–588, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhang, S. L., Yu, Y., Roos, J., Kozak, J. A., Deerinck, T. J., Ellisman, M. H., Stauderman, K. A., and Cahalan, M. D.: STIM1 is a Ca2+ sensor that activates CRAC channels and migrates from the Ca2+ store to the plasma membrane, Nature, 437, 902–905, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson, B., Vignaux, G. A., and Berger, C. E. H.: Interpreting Evidence, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Narayanan, R. (Ed.): Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation of Surfactants, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 263 p. 152 illus pp., 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Fei, S., Crawford, M., and Schibig, J.: Assisting Natural Resource Management in Mammoth Cave National Park Using Geospatial Technology, in: Geospatial Technologies in Environmental Management, edited by: Hoalst-Pullen, N. and Patterson, M. W., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 49–61, 2010.

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 Discussions.

Blog post

Taliban Issue Unusual Statement Encouraging Afghans To Plant Trees: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/taliban-issue-unusual-statement-encouraging-afghans-to-plant-trees/, last access: 30 October 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: Expenditures for Public Affairs Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baruth, L. E.: Joan Tower and the clarinet: An examination of her compositional style and a performer’s guide to “RAIN WAVES” (1997) and “A GIFT” (2007), Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.

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

Quain, J. R.: Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face, New York Times, 6th April, B6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bayry, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bayry, 2008; Phipps and Gaunt, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Phipps and Gaunt, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions
Abbreviation	Nonlin. Process. Geophys. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	2198-5634
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