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

Meyer, R.: Finding the true value of US climate science, Nature, 482, 133, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodner, S. and Paine, C.: When peer review fails, Nature, 407, 129–130, 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elbelrhiti, H., Claudin, P., and Andreotti, B.: Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes, Nature, 437, 720–723, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Prainsack, B., Reardon, J., Hindmarsh, R., Gottweis, H., Naue, U., and Lunshof, J. E.: Personal genomes: Misdirected precaution, Nature, 456, 34–35, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson, H. and Åkerlind, U.: Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Yu, L. X. and Li, B. V. (Eds.): FDA Bioequivalence Standards, Springer, New York, NY, XIII, 465 p. 58 illus., 26 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Köhler, S., Zemke, J., Becker, W., Wiebach, J., Liebscher, A., Möller, F., and Bannach, A.: Operational Reservoir Monitoring at the CO2 Pilot Storage Site Ketzin, Germany, in: Clean Energy Systems in the Subsurface: Production, Storage and Conversion: Proceedings of the 3rd Sino-German Conference “Underground Storage of CO2 and Energy”, Goslar, Germany, 21-23 May 2013, edited by: Hou, M. Z., Xie, H., and Were, P., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 53–63, 2013.

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

Man Swims Near Shark in Sydney Harbor: Real or Hoax?

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: National Transportation System: Options and Analytical Tools to Strengthen DOT’s Approach to Supporting Communities’ Access to the System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ouyang, A.: Embryonic Stem Cell Culture in Fibrous Bed Bioreactor, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006.

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

Pilon, M.: Monopoly Goes Corporate, New York Times, 25th August, SR12, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bodner and Paine, 2000; Meyer, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bodner and Paine, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Prainsack et al., 2008)

About the journal

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