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

Wickware P (2000) Postdocs reject academic research. Nature 407:429–430

A journal article with 2 authors

Leung CT, Brugge JS (2012) Outgrowth of single oncogene-expressing cells from suppressive epithelial environments. Nature 482:410–413

A journal article with 3 authors

Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B, Wehner R (2001) Ant odometry in the third dimension. Nature 411:795–798

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hoffmann A, Levchenko A, Scott ML, Baltimore D (2002) The IkappaB-NF-kappaB signaling module: temporal control and selective gene activation. Science 298:1241–1245

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CCPS (2006) Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Awrejcewicz J (ed) (2009) Modeling, Simulation and Control of Nonlinear Engineering Dynamical Systems: State-of-the-Art, Perspectives and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Bellin-Mularski N, Mah D-K, Ifenthaler D (2016) Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of School Development. In: Spector JM, Ifenthaler D, Sampson DG, Isaias P (eds) Competencies in Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: Papers from CELDA 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–76

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

Andrew D (2016) Here’s How To Convince The Brain That Prosthetic Legs Are Real. 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 (1986) Telephone Communications: Bell Operating Company Entry Into New Lines of Business. 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

Bradford J (2012) Commutative endomorphism rings of simple abelian varieties over finite fields. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Brantley B (2017) Too Shocking for Midtown in the 1920s. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware 2000; Leung and Brugge 2012).

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

Two authors: (Leung and Brugge 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al. 2002)

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