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

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

Mikaloff-Fletcher, S.E., 2015. CLIMATE. An increasing carbon sink? Science 349, 1165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyet, M., Carlson, R.W., 2005. 142Nd evidence for early (>4.53 Ga) global differentiation of the silicate Earth. Science 309, 576–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmore, D., Foulkes, N.S., Sassone-Corsi, P., 2000. Light acts directly on organs and cells in culture to set the vertebrate circadian clock. Nature 404, 87–91.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wikelski, M., Tarlow, E.M., Raim, A., Diehl, R.H., Larkin, R.P., Visser, G.H., 2003. Avian metabolism: Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds. Nature 423, 704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, S.-C., Delbruck, T., Indiveri, G., Whatley, A., Douglas, R., 2015. Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rangel-Buitrago, N., 2015. Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colombia) and Cadiz (Spain), SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Huang, W., 2014. Extension and Generalization of the EMMS Principle, in: Huang, W. (Ed.), Towards Mesoscience: The Principle of Compromise in Competition, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–44.

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 Geodynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2016. Klinefelter’s Syndrome: Being Unable To Produce Testosterone Has Serious Implications For Men [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/klinefelter-s-syndrome-being-unable-produce-testosterone-has-serious/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. B-2 Bomber: Early Radar Signature Tests (No. NSIAD-91-188). 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

Klein, J., 2017. Mississippian Space and Place: A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2015. A Comic Book in the Company of Masterpieces. New York Times C32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mikaloff-Fletcher, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Boyet and Carlson, 2005; Mikaloff-Fletcher, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Boyet and Carlson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wikelski et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geodynamics
Abbreviation	J. Geodyn.
ISSN (print)	0264-3707
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geophysics