How to format your references using the History of Geo- and Space Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 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 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

Rusbridger, A.: Scientists must speak up on fossil-fuel divestment, Nature, 520, 265, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgani, S. and Guzzo, L.: X-ray clusters of galaxies as tracers of structure in the Universe, Nature, 409, 39–45, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes, W. L., Dereux, A., and Ebbesen, T. W.: Surface plasmon subwavelength optics, Nature, 424, 824–830, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Gao, Z.-D., Qu, Y., Li, T., Shrestha, N. K., and Song, Y.-Y.: Development of amperometric glucose biosensor based on Prussian Blue functionlized TiO2 nanotube arrays, Sci. Rep., 4, 6891, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sillar, K. T., Picton, L. D., and Heitler, W. J.: The Neuroethology of Predation and Escape, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

Patel, H. D.: SystemC Kernel Extensions for Heterogeneous System Modeling: A framework for Multi-MoC Modeling & Simulation, edited by: Shukla, S. K., Springer US, Boston, MA, XXXII, 172 p p., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Morganti, R.: Using HI Absorption to Trace Outflows from Galaxies and Feeding of AGN, in: The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010, edited by: Barbosa, D., Anton, S., Gurvits, L., and Maia, D., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 31–42, 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 History of Geo- and Space Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Man Forms Star-Shaped Cataracts Following Electric Shock, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-forms-star-shaped-cataracts-following-electric-shock/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2014., 2014.

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: EPA: New Motor Vehicles and New Motor Vehicle Engines Air Pollution Control--Voluntary Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles, OGC-97-45, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mc Adams, A. N.: School psychologists’ perceptions of procedural fidelity in special education, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Billard, M.: Many Feet Shall Be Shod, , New York Times22nd AprilE5, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rusbridger, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Borgani and Guzzo, 2001; Rusbridger, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Borgani and Guzzo, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	History of Geo- and Space Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Geo Space Sci.
ISSN (print)	2190-5010
ISSN (online)	2190-5029
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Earth and Planetary Sciences