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

King, D. A. (2004). The scientific impact of nations. Nature, 430(6997), 311–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raser, J. M., & O’Shea, E. K. (2004). Control of stochasticity in eukaryotic gene expression. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5678), 1811–1814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gneezy, U., Keenan, E. A., & Gneezy, A. (2014). Behavioral economics. Avoiding overhead aversion in charity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 632–635.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Robledo, L., Elzerman, J., Jundt, G., Atatüre, M., Högele, A., Fält, S., & Imamoglu, A. (2008). Conditional dynamics of interacting quantum dots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 772–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, H. (2013). Angewandte Baudynamik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Upton, D. (2015). Psychology of Wounds and Wound Care in Clinical Practice. (P. Upton, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, J. (2014). BPA and Dental Materials. In T. Eliades & G. Eliades (Eds.), Plastics in Dentistry and Estrogenicity: A Guide to Safe Practice (pp. 117–124). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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. (2015, May 29). Source Of Black Hole Jets Revealed For The First Time. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/relativistic-jets/

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. (2000). Inspectors General: Information on Resources and Selected Accomplishments of 18 Inspectors General (No. AIMD-00-149R). 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

Malherek, M. N. (2016). The Prevalence and Predictors of Parental Corporal Punishment in the United States (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, September 28). ‘The Cher Show’ Is Set for Broadway. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (King, 2004; Raser & O’Shea, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Raser & O’Shea, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Robledo et al., 2008)

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