How to format your references using the Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions. 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

Smeeding, T. M.: Economics. Adjusting to the fertility bust, Science, 346, 163–164, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, N. and Ren, J.: Non-reciprocal geometric wave diode by engineering asymmetric shapes of nonlinear materials, Sci. Rep., 4, 6228, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, Y.-Y., Slotine, J.-J., and Barabási, A.-L.: Controllability of complex networks, Nature, 473, 167–173, 2011.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ganeshram, R. S., Pedersen, T. F., Calvert, S., and François, R.: Reduced nitrogen fixation in the glacial ocean inferred from changes in marine nitrogen and phosphorus inventories, Nature, 415, 156–159, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belmont, D. P.: Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 1 Fusionopolis Walk, #07-01, Solaris South Tower, Singapore 138628, 2011.

An edited book

Sáez, M. (Ed.): Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VIII, 208 p p., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Buatois, L. A., Labandeira, C. C., Mángano, M. G., Cohen, A., and Voigt, S.: The Mesozoic Lacustrine Revolution, in: The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic, edited by: Mángano, M. G. and Buatois, L. A., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 179–263, 2016.

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 Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: 7 Myths About Your Body That You Probably Believe, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/7-myths-you-probably-believe-about-your-body/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: Vulnerabilities of Telecommunications Systems to Unauthorized Use, LCD-77-102, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sharma, S. P.: U.S. Government Program Managers’ Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2017.

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

Beschloss, M.: The Buck Shouldn’t Stop Here, , New York Times30th OctoberBR8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smeeding, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Ren, 2014; Smeeding, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Ren, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ganeshram et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions
Abbreviation	Nonlin. Process. Geophys. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	2198-5634
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