How to format your references using the Journal of Geodesy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geodesy. 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

Murcott T (2009) Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood. Nature 459:1054–1055

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ (2011) Mineralogical constraints on Precambrian pCO2. Nature 474:E1-2; discussion E4-5

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooke J, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G (2001) Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls. Nature 413:610–613

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nakamura D, Gunjishima I, Yamaguchi S, et al (2004) Ultrahigh-quality silicon carbide single crystals. Nature 430:1009–1012

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann K (2005) System Integration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cokkinos DV, Pantos C, Heusch G, Taegtmeyer H (eds) (2006) Myocardial Ischemia: From mechanisms to therapeutic potentials. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Barazzetti L, Brumana R, Oreni D, Previtali M (2014) Historical Map Registration via Independent Model Adjustment with Affine Transformations. In: Murgante B, Misra S, Rocha AMAC, et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 44–56

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 Journal of Geodesy.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Doubt Cast On Research Claiming Chimps Can Learn New “Accents.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/doubt-cast-research-claiming-chimps-can-learn-new-accents/. 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 (1988) FAA Technical Center: Mission and Role in National Airspace System Plan Implementation. 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

Rutherford BA (2017) Beneficial Tensile Mean Strain Effects on the Fatigue Behavior of Superelastic NiTi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices May Rule on Right To ‘Keep and Bear Arms.’ New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Murcott 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Murcott 2009; Reinhard and Planavsky 2011).

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

Two authors: (Reinhard and Planavsky 2011)
Three or more authors: (Nakamura et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geodesy
Abbreviation	J. Geod.
ISSN (print)	0949-7714
ISSN (online)	1432-1394
Scope	Computers in Earth Sciences Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics