How to format your references using the Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems. 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

Dolgin, E.: Therapeutics: Negative feedback, Nature, 508, S10-1, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luo, J. and Lai, Y.: Anisotropic zero-index waveguide with arbitrary shapes, Sci. Rep., 4, 5875, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pouysségur, J., Dayan, F., and Mazure, N. M.: Hypoxia signalling in cancer and approaches to enforce tumour regression, Nature, 441, 437–443, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ohtsuki, H., Hauert, C., Lieberman, E., and Nowak, M. A.: A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks, Nature, 441, 502–505, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anson, E. M.: Alexander’s Heirs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K.: Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science III, edited by: Chin, S. L., Agostini, P., and Ferrante, G., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XII, 365 p p., 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Liitos, H.-M., Kallio, E., and Tynjälä, P.: Transformations Toward Mature Thinking: Challenges for Education and Learning, in: Transitions and Transformations in Learning and Education, edited by: Tynjälä, P., Stenström, M.-L., and Saarnivaara, M., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 51–66, 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 Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: The Fate Of The Universe: Heat Death, Big Rip Or Cosmic Consciousness?, https://www.iflscience.com/space/fate-universe-heat-death-big-rip-or-cosmic-consciousness/, 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: Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System, T-RCED/AIMD-00-142, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pak, C. H.: A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2015.

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

Kenigsberg, B.: A Romance With Long Distances, , New York Times22nd JuneC10, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin, 2014; Luo and Lai, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Luo and Lai, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ohtsuki et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
ISSN (print)	2193-0856
ISSN (online)	2193-0864
Scope	Atmospheric Science Geology Oceanography