How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 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

Powell, K. (2007). Breaking with tradition. Nature, 446(7132), 226–228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elbaz, D., & Cesarsky, C. J. (2003). A fossil record of galaxy encounters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5617), 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, C., Liu, X., & Wang, G. (2014). Electrically tunable graphene plasmonic quasicrystal metasurfaces for transformation optics. Scientific Reports, 4, 5763.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Marcikic, I., de Riedmatten, H., Tittel, W., Zbinden, H., & Gisin, N. (2003). Long-distance teleportation of qubits at telecommunication wavelengths. Nature, 421(6922), 509–513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertolo, D. (2016). Interactions on Digital Tablets in the Context of 3D Geometry Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lindkvist, K. B., & Trondsen, T. (Eds.). (2015). Nordic-Iberian Cod Value Chains: Explaining salted fish trade patterns (Vol. 8). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kurtz, J., & Wortman, B. (2014). Up and Down the Stack with a POST. In B. Wortman (Ed.), ASP.NET Web API 2: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish (pp. 49–115). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 26). DNA Origami Just Got Better. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-origami-just-got-better/

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. (1981). Review of the High Speed Antiradiation Missile Program (No. C-MASAD-81–7). Washington, DC: 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

Iniguez, A. (2013). The Latino immigrant families and involvement with child welfare system: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Williams, J. (2017, August 18). Updating DNA’s Life Story. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Elbaz & Cesarsky, 2003; Powell, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Elbaz & Cesarsky, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Marcikic et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci.
ISSN (print)	2169-8953
ISSN (online)	2169-8961
Scope