How to format your references using the Surveys in Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Surveys in 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Reich J (2015) Education research. Rebooting MOOC research. Science 347:34–35

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayraktar OA, Doe CQ (2013) Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity. Nature 498:449–455

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee C-Y, Robinson KJ, Doe CQ (2006) Lgl, Pins and aPKC regulate neuroblast self-renewal versus differentiation. Nature 439:594–598

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Morrish TA, Garcia-Perez JL, Stamato TD, et al (2007) Endonuclease-independent LINE-1 retrotransposition at mammalian telomeres. Nature 446:208–212

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pande A, Wolshon B (2015) Traffic Engineering Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Alperson-Afil N (2010) The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Volume II: Ancient Flames and Controlled Use of Fire. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Iacoviello G, Lazzini A, Nanetti S (2014) Information Systems and Managerial Control in the Era of Globalization: Evidence from the Fashion Industry. In: Baglieri D, Metallo C, Rossignoli C, Pezzillo Iacono M (eds) Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–87

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 Surveys in Geophysics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Neurotransmitter Boost Has Fast-Acting Antidepressant Effects In Mice. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1971) Charges for Launch Support Services Furnished by the Air Force to the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat). 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

Faye C (2017) Dust. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Wilson M (2017) In Officers’ 4-Wheeled ‘Home,’ A Shattered Sense of Security. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reich 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bayraktar and Doe 2013; Reich 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bayraktar and Doe 2013)
Three or more authors: (Morrish et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Surveys in Geophysics
Abbreviation	Surv. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	0169-3298
ISSN (online)	1573-0956
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics