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

Lander, A. D. (2013). How cells know where they are. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6122), 923–927.

A journal article with 2 authors

König, P., & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (2002). Neuroscience. Neurons in action. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574), 1817–1818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ford, H. L., Ravelo, A. C., & Polissar, P. J. (2015). Reduced El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6219), 255–258.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Michor, F., Hughes, T. P., Iwasa, Y., Branford, S., Shah, N. P., Sawyers, C. L., & Nowak, M. A. (2005). Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia. Nature, 435(7046), 1267–1270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jäger, W., & Marzahn, G. (2010). Mauerwerk. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Blesa, M. J., Blum, C., Raidl, G., Roli, A., & Sampels, M. (Eds.). (2010). Hybrid Metaheuristics: 7th International Workshop, HM 2010, Vienna, Austria, October 1-2, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6373). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adámek, J. (2005). Algebra ∩ Coalgebra = Presheaves. In J. L. Fiadeiro, N. Harman, M. Roggenbach, & J. Rutten (Eds.), Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: First International Conference, CALCO 2005, Swansea, UK, September 3-6, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 67–82). 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, September 8). Is The Solid Crust In North America Really So Stable? Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1988). Hazardous Waste: Problems and Cleanup Efforts at an FAA Facility in Oklahoma City (No. RCED-88-113FS). 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

Masuyama, G. (2010). The Bird Is A Word (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

Card, J. (2017, July 25). Breathtaking Beauty. New York Times, p. TR7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (König & Verschure, 2002; Lander, 2013).

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

Two authors: (König & Verschure, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Michor et al., 2005)

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