How to format your references using the NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and 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	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

Liu, R.C., 2015. Sensory systems: The yin and yang of cortical oxytocin. Nature 520, 444–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell, B.B., Shulman, G.I., 2005. Mitochondrial dysfunction and type 2 diabetes. Science 307, 384–387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, G.-M., Wu, L.-A., Xing, H.-J., 2014. Symmetry restoration and quantumness reestablishment. Sci. Rep. 4, 6377.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Macchiarelli, R., Bondioli, L., Debénath, A., Mazurier, A., Tournepiche, J.-F., Birch, W., Dean, M.C., 2006. How Neanderthal molar teeth grew. Nature 444, 748–751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peca, S.P., 2009. Real Estate Development and Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hui, W.-H., 2012. Computational Fluid Dynamics Based on the Unified Coordinates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, G.A., 2016. Nurturing Civic Involvement, in: Smith, H., McDermott, J.C. (Eds.), The Foxfire Approach: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 19–30.

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 NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Suspended Animation Human Trials About to Begin [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/suspended-animation-human-trials-about-begin/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Financial Management: Briefing on the Federal Aviation Administration Property, Plant, and Equipment Accountability Review (No. AIMD-99-208R). 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

Havill, N.L., 2012. Therapeutic landscapes for birth: A research synthesis (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Beachy, S.C., 2014. Mars, Observed. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Liu, 2015; Lowell and Shulman, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lowell and Shulman, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Macchiarelli et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics
ISSN (print)	2090-9977
Scope	Geophysics Astronomy and Astrophysics