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

Macilwain, C., 2000. Budget crisis forces hard choices on US high-energy physics. Nature 404, 909–910.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helms, J.A., Schneider, R.A., 2003. Cranial skeletal biology. Nature 423, 326–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jermiin, L.S., Poladian, L., Charleston, M.A., 2005. Evolution. Is the “Big Bang” in animal evolution real? Science 310, 1910–1911.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Justman, Q.A., Serber, Z., Ferrell, J.E., Jr, El-Samad, H., Shokat, K.M., 2009. Tuning the activation threshold of a kinase network by nested feedback loops. Science 324, 509–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh, A.H., 1996. Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Windt, K. (Ed.), 2013. Robust Manufacturing Control: Proceedings of the CIRP Sponsored Conference RoMaC 2012, Bremen, Germany, 18th-20th June 2012, Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Z.-X., Tamamura, H., Frilot, N., Broach, J., Fujii, N., Peiper, S.C., 2007. Screening and characterization of cyclic pentapeptide CXCR4 antagonists/inverse agonists using a pheromone responsive reporter gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Utility of G protein coupled receptor constitutively active mutants, in: Neote, K., Letts, G.L., Moser, B. (Eds.), Chemokine Biology — Basic Research and Clinical Application: Volume II: Pathophysiology of Chemokines, Progress in Inflammation Research. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 61–77.

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

Carpineti, C., 2017. Check Out The Ingenious Way This Seal Manages To Avoid Hungry Orcas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/check-out-the-ingenious-way-this-seal-manages-to-avoid-hungry-orcas/ (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, 2016. Aviation Security: Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Would Benefit from Risk Assessment and Strategy Updates (No. GAO-16-632). 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

Harris, K.R., 2010. The need for social workers in community clinic settings: A grant writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wines, M., 2017. Fearing Hackers, States Upgrade Voting Systems. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Helms and Schneider, 2003; Macilwain, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Helms and Schneider, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Justman et al., 2009)

About the journal

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