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

Mestel L (2005) Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature 437:828

A journal article with 2 authors

Li G-W, Xie XS (2011) Central dogma at the single-molecule level in living cells. Nature 475:308–315

A journal article with 3 authors

Béarez P, DeVries TJ, Ortlieb L (2003) Comment on “Otolith delta18O record of mid-Holocene sea surface temperatures in Peru.” Science 299:203; author reply 203

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Keenlyside NS, Latif M, Jungclaus J, et al (2008) Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector. Nature 453:84–88

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marx FG, Lambert O, Uhen MD (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Verdonschot PFM, Wang H, Pinder A, Nijboer R (eds) (2006) Aquatic Oligochaete Biology IX: Selected Papers from the 9th Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, 6–10 October 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Klein J, Klein N (2013) Johann Mendel’s Lehrjahre: The Second Decade. In: Klein N (ed) Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1: Formative Years. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 157–189

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

Davis J (2015) Female Capuchin Picks her Nose – Using a Stick. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-capuchins-pick-their-nose-using-stick/. 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 (1998) Social Security Administration: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Information Technology Challenges Facing the Commissioner. 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

Carolina DS (2009) A qualitative study of the healthcare experiences and health information acquisition of African American men. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS (2010) Love That Look, Wonder Woman. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mestel 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mestel 2005; Li and Xie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Li and Xie 2011)
Three or more authors: (Keenlyside et al. 2008)

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