How to format your references using the Russian Geology and Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Geology and 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

Maynard, H., 2015. Chemical biology: Protein modification in a trice. Nature 526, 646–647.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purugganan, M.D., Fuller, D.Q., 2009. The nature of selection during plant domestication. Nature 457, 843–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mersch, D.P., Crespi, A., Keller, L., 2013. Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization. Science 340, 1090–1093.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, W., Wan, H., Feng, G., Qu, J., Wang, J., Jing, Y., Ren, R., Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Chen, Z., Wang, S., Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Yuan, Y., Zhou, Q., Li, W., Liu, G.-H., Hu, B., 2018. SIRT6 deficiency results in developmental retardation in cynomolgus monkeys. Nature 560, 661–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vento, J.J., 2013. Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alston, M., Whittenbury, K. (Eds.), 2013. Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Scheffers, A.M., Kelletat, D.H., 2016. Saline Lakes and Saltpans, in: Kelletat, D.H. (Ed.), Lakes of the World with Google Earth: Understanding Our Environment, Coastal Research Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 181–241.

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 Russian Geology and Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Some Creatures Use Electricity And Vibrations In Sex (And This Can Be Dangerous) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-creatures-use-electricity-and-vibrations-sex-and-can-be-dangerous/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes (No. GAO-06-680R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jaime, A.A., 2017. “Cockroach centuries”: The cockroach image as the conduit for the marginalized beat woman and artist in Elise Cowen’s cockroach poetry (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. The Best of Rivals And Best of Friends, Then and Always. New York Times F10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maynard, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Maynard, 2015; Purugganan and Fuller, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Purugganan and Fuller, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Geology and Geophysics
Abbreviation	Russ. Geol. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	1068-7971
Scope	Geology Geophysics