How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering citation style

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

[1]

Hestmark G 2000 Oeconomia Naturae L Nature 405 19

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Meziane-Cherif D and Courvalin P 2014 Antibiotic resistance: to the rescue of old drugs Nature 510 477–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Runnels L W, Yue L and Clapham D E 2001 TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities Science 291 1043–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Nogi T, Yasui N, Mihara E, Matsunaga Y, Noda M, Yamashita N, Toyofuku T, Uchiyama S, Goshima Y, Kumanogoh A and Takagi J 2010 Structural basis for semaphorin signalling through the plexin receptor Nature 467 1123–7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Heller D 2011 Hairspray (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Noguchi M 2016 ZEMCH: Toward the Delivery of Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Akiyama J and Matsunaga K 2015 Reversible Pairs of Figures Treks into Intuitive Geometry: The World of Polygons and Polyhedra ed K Matsunaga (Tokyo: Springer Japan) pp 81–141

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 Geophysics and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Python Requires Emergency Surgery After Swallowing BBQ Tongs IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 2005 Taxpayer Information: Options Exist to Enable Data Sharing Between IRS and USCIS but Each Presents Challenges (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

[1]

Rey D 2017 Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation Doctoral dissertation (La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego)

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

[1]

Gustines G G 2016 Off ‘The Real World,’ a Relationship Endures New York Times ST19

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysics and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1742-2132
ISSN (online)	1742-2140
Scope	Geology Geophysics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law