How to format your references using the Reviews of Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews of 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	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

Reenan, R. A. (2005). Molecular determinants and guided evolution of species-specific RNA editing. Nature, 434(7031), 409–413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Class, C., & Goldstein, S. L. (2005). Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth’s mantle. Nature, 436(7054), 1107–1112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tahir, M., MacKinnon, A., & Schwingenschlögl, U. (2014). Novel spectral features of nanoelectromechanical systems. Scientific Reports, 4, 4035.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Furnes, H., de Wit, M., Staudigel, H., Rosing, M., & Muehlenbachs, K. (2007). A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1704–1707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collier, C. G. (2016). Hydrometeorology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rugini, E., Baldoni, L., Muleo, R., & Sebastiani, L. (Eds.). (2016). The Olive Tree Genome. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gornitzka, Å. (2009). Networking Administration in Areas of National Sensitivity: The Commission and European Higher Education. In A. Amaral, G. Neave, C. Musselin, & P. Maassen (Eds.), European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research (pp. 109–131). 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 Reviews of Geophysics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 27). Tony Hawk Tries Out Some Weightless Skateboarding On “The Vomit Comet.” 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. (1993). FAA Reauthorization: Opportunity Exists to Address Safety, Capacity, and Efficiency Issues (No. T-RCED-93-75). 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

Rajagopal, S. (2012). Assessing water management impacts of climate change for a semi-arid watershed in the southwestern US (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Dominus, S. (2016, February 25). Parent Companies. New York Times, p. MM46.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reenan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Class & Goldstein, 2005; Reenan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Class & Goldstein, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Furnes et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews of Geophysics
Abbreviation	Rev. Geophys.
ISSN (online)	1944-9208
Scope	Geophysics