How to format your references using the Advances in Radio Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Radio Science. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Abbott, A.: Genomics: sorry, dogs - man’s got a new best friend, Nature, 420, 729, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, G. and Or, D.: Trophic interactions induce spatial self-organization of microbial consortia on rough surfaces, Sci. Rep., 4, 6757, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta, A., Zadafiya, P., and Mahalakshmi, R.: Differential contribution of tryptophans to the folding and stability of the attachment invasion locus transmembrane β-barrel from Yersinia pestis, Sci. Rep., 4, 6508, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhong, J., Liu, W., Kong, L., and Morais, P. C.: A new approach for highly accurate, remote temperature probing using magnetic nanoparticles, Sci. Rep., 4, 6338, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boxer, H.: Profitable Day and Swing Trading, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Bandt, O. de, Knetsch, T., Peñalosa, J., and Zollino, F. (Eds.): Housing Markets in Europe: A Macroeconomic Perspective, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIX, 406 p p., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Pettinari, M., Sangiorgi, C., Petretto, F., and Picariello, F.: Comparison between 2PB and 4PB Methodologies Based on the Dissipated Energy Approach, in: 7th RILEM International Conference on Cracking in Pavements: Mechanisms, Modeling, Testing, Detection and Prevention Case Histories, edited by: Scarpas, A., Kringos, N., Al-Qadi, I., and A., L., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 31–39, 2012.

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 Advances in Radio Science.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Mushrooms’ Spores Might Help Make It Rain, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mushrooms-spores-could-be-inducing-clouds-form-rain/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: NextGen Air Transportation System: FAA’s Metrics Can Be Used to Report on Status of Individual Programs, but Not of Overall NextGen Implementation or Outcomes, GAO-10-629, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alexander, B. C.: A descriptive study of intercollegiate athletics in Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2009.

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

Forsythe, M.: A Missing Tycoon’s Links to Dalian Wanda, China’s Troubled Conglomerate, , New York Times10th AugustB3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2002; Wang and Or, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Or, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Radio Science
Abbreviation	Adv. Radio Sci.
ISSN (print)	1684-9965
ISSN (online)	1684-9973
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