How to format your references using the Geodinamica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geodinamica Acta. 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

Benford, G. (2008). Obituary: Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Nature, 452(7187), 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon, J. H., & Hartmann, M. J. (2006). Biomechanics: robotic whiskers used to sense features. Nature, 443(7111), 525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurland, C. G., Collins, L. J., & Penny, D. (2006). Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryote cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5776), 1011–1014.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Weijers, D., Geldner, N., Offringa, R., & Jürgens, G. (2001). Seed development: Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis. Nature, 414(6865), 709–710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson, B., Vignaux, G. A., & Berger, C. E. H. (2016). Interpreting Evidence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Griebel, M., & Schweitzer, M. A. (Eds.). (2013). Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations VI (Vol. 89). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, M., & Wellmer, F.-W. (2010). A Hierarchy of Natural Resources with Respect to Sustainable Development—A Basis for a Natural Resources Efficiency Indicator. In J. Richards (Ed.), Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World (pp. 91–121). Springer.

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 Geodinamica Acta.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 8). Powerful 6.5M Earthquake Detected Off The Coast Of California. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/powerful-65m-earthquake-detected-off-the-coast-of-california/

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. (1990). El Salvador: Pipeline of U.S. Aid as of August 1990 (NSIAD-90-285FS). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moose, A. M. (2013). The Relationship of Distributed Expertise and Shared Leadership in New Product Development Teams: A Comparative Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Feeney, K. (2012, October 21). Whipping Up a Brew That Is True to You. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Benford, 2008; Solomon & Hartmann, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Solomon & Hartmann, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Weijers et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geodinamica Acta
ISSN (print)	0985-3111
ISSN (online)	1778-3593
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics