How to format your references using the Pure and Applied Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pure and Applied Geophysics (ASABE). 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

Nosengo, N. (2003). The quota conundrum. Nature, 426(6963), 211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baldwin, M. P., Dunkerton, T. J. (2001). Stratospheric harbingers of anomalous weather regimes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 581–584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, W. R., Roberts, A. J., Stuhne, G. (2001). Reproductive pair correlations and the clustering of organisms. Nature, 412(6844), 328–331.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Orzel, C., Tuchman, A. K., Fenselau, M. L., Yasuda, M., Kasevich, M. A. (2001). Squeezed states in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5512), 2386–2389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane, D. (2011). The Chief Information Officer’s Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Petzold, A. (Ed.). (2016). Optical Coherence Tomography in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical Applications (1st ed. 2016). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wajnberg, E. (2010). Genetics of the Behavioral Ecology of Egg Parasitoids. In F. L. Consoli, J. R. P. Parra, & R. A. Zucchi (Eds.), Egg Parasitoids in Agroecosystems with Emphasis on Trichogramma (pp. 149–165). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Pure and Applied Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 16). Solving The Puzzle Of Sea-Level Rise By Reexamining The Past. Accessed 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. (1990). Telecommunications: Follow-Up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services (No. RCED-90-199). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adetunji, O. O. (2008). The Nature of Electronic States in Conducting Polymer Nano-Networks (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995, January 8). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, p. 139.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nosengo, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Baldwin and Dunkerton, 2001; Nosengo, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Baldwin and Dunkerton, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Orzel et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pure and Applied Geophysics
ISSN (print)	0033-4553
ISSN (online)	1420-9136
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