How to format your references using the Radio Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radio Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

Campisi, J. (2005). Suppressing cancer: the importance of being senescent. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5736), 886–887.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, L., & Wang, J. (2014). Arbitrary manipulation of spatial amplitude and phase using phase-only spatial light modulators. Scientific Reports, 4, 7441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhavsar, A. P., Guttman, J. A., & Finlay, B. B. (2007). Manipulation of host-cell pathways by bacterial pathogens. Nature, 449(7164), 827–834.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leclaire, S., van Dongen, W. F. D., Voccia, S., Merkling, T., Ducamp, C., Hatch, S. A., et al. (2014). Preen secretions encode information on MHC similarity in certain sex-dyads in a monogamous seabird. Scientific Reports, 4, 6920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley, T. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Albrecht-Schmitt, T. E. (Ed.). (2008). Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry of the Actinides (Vol. 127). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Elios, M. M., Benagiano, M., Amedei, A., & Emmi, G. (2014). Infections, Autoimmunity, and Behçet’s Syndrome: What Liaison? In L. Emmi (Ed.), Behçet’s Syndrome: From Pathogenesis to Treatment (pp. 39–51). Milano: Springer.

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 Radio Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 8). NY Court Will Decide If Chimps Qualify For Legal Personhood. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ny-court-will-decide-if-chimps-qualify-legal-personhood/

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. (2003). Satellite Communications: Strategic Approach Needed for DOD’s Procurement of Commercial Satellite Bandwidth (No. GAO-04-206). 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

Sponsel, H. (2010). Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 (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

Gabriel, T. (2017, May 22). ‘We’re Throwaway People.’ New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campisi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Campisi, 2005; Zhu & Wang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhu & Wang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Leclaire et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radio Science
Abbreviation	Radio Sci.
ISSN (print)	0048-6604
ISSN (online)	1944-799X
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics