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

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

Friedman, S. D. (2008). Comment on “Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, I. B., & Holt, J. W. (2010). Onset and migration of spiral troughs on Mars revealed by orbital radar. Nature, 465(7297), 450–453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugawara, T., Kano, F., & Murata, M. (2014). Rab2A is a pivotal switch protein that promotes either secretion or ER-associated degradation of (pro)insulin in insulin-secreting cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6952.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Sun, C.-M., Hu, X.-Q., & Zhao, Y. (2014). Relationship between melatonin receptor 1B and insulin receptor substrate 1 polymorphisms with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 4, 6113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaul, S., Ali, F., Janakiram, S., & Wattenström, B. (2008). Business Models for Sustainable Telecoms Growth in Developing Economies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Paolantonio, P. (2014). Imaging of Small Bowel, Colon and Rectum. (C. Dromain, Ed.). Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vrolijk, M. A. (2016). Immigration Detention and Non-removability Before the European Court of Human Rights. In M. J. Guia, R. Koulish, & V. Mitsilegas (Eds.), Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights: Studies on Immigration and Crime (pp. 47–72). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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: Planets.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 8). Video: Rare Sighting of Live Oarfish. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1987). Education’s Chapter 1 and 2 Programs and Local Dropout Prevention and Reentry Programs (No. T-HRD-87-2). 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

Boyle, C. N. (2013). Support program for transition age youth: 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

Gustines, G. G. (2017, June 29). Friendly Neighborhood Web-Slinger Exhibition. New York Times, p. C16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2008; Smith & Holt, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Smith & Holt, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res. Planets
ISSN (print)	2169-9097
ISSN (online)	2169-9100
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