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

Sandidge, J.S., 2003. Arachnology: scavenging by brown recluse spiders. Nature 426, 30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richie, T.L., Saul, A., 2002. Progress and challenges for malaria vaccines. Nature 415, 694–701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janasek, D., Franzke, J., Manz, A., 2006. Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature 442, 374–380.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fan, W., Waymire, K.G., Narula, N., Li, P., Rocher, C., Coskun, P.E., Vannan, M.A., Narula, J., Macgregor, G.R., Wallace, D.C., 2008. A mouse model of mitochondrial disease reveals germline selection against severe mtDNA mutations. Science 319, 958–962.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, M., Landuyt, G., 2010. The Future of Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

McGowan, B.L., Palmer, R.T., Wood, J.L., Hibbler, D.F. (Eds.), 2016. Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Lipson, H., 2010. Mining Experimental Data for Dynamical Invariants - From Cognitive Robotics to Computational Biology, in: Balcázar, J.L., Bonchi, F., Gionis, A., Sebag, M. (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 4–4.

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

Davis, J., 2016. The Bacteria In Our Gut May Influence Our Response To Certain Cancer Treatments [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1978. Need for Full Cost Reporting and Participating Agreement on SEASAT-A Project (No. PSAD-78-76). 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

Breckenridge, C., 2017. Measuring Object and Attribute Salience in 2014 Illinois Gubernatorial Endorsements (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

Wagner, J., 2016. Mets Enter Off-Season With One Big Question and Many Decisions. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandidge, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Richie and Saul, 2002; Sandidge, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Richie and Saul, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2008)

About the journal

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