How to format your references using the Radio Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radio Science. 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

Koenig, R. (2000). IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5496), 1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plug, L. J., & Werner, B. T. (2002). Nonlinear dynamics of ice-wedge networks and resulting sensitivity to severe cooling events. Nature, 417(6892), 929–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ge, D.-Z., Sheng, Y., & Cai, X. (2014). Combined staurosporine and retinoic acid induces differentiation in retinoic acid resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia cell lines. Scientific Reports, 4, 4821.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Utikal, J., Polo, J. M., Stadtfeld, M., Maherali, N., Kulalert, W., Walsh, R. M., et al. (2009). Immortalization eliminates a roadblock during cellular reprogramming into iPS cells. Nature, 460(7259), 1145–1148.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karamalidis, A. K., & Dzombak, D. A. (2010). Surface Complexation Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Damiani, E., Jeong, J., Howlett, R. J., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2009). New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2 (Vol. 226). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Parnabas, V. A., Mahamood, Y., Parnabas, J., & Parnabas, A. M. (2016). Gender Differences on the Sources of Anxiety and Level of Sport Performance Among Malaysian Athletes. In S. I. Ismail, N. Sulaiman, & R. Adnan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2015 (ICoSSEET 2015) (pp. 35–41). Singapore: Springer.

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 Radio Science.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, June 28). Could Dragons On Westeros Fly? Aeronautical Engineering And Maths Say They Could. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/could-dragons-on-westeros-fly-aeronautical-engineering-and-maths-say-they-could/

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. (2012). Surface Transportation: Financing Program Could Benefit from Increased Performance Focus and Better Communication (No. GAO-12-641). 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

Ortiz, J. A. (2014). New graduate nurses’ experiences of what accounts for their lack of professional confidence during their first year of practice (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Schwirtz, M., & White, R. (2013, December 21). Tractor-Trailer Kills 8-Year-Old Boy Walking to School in Queens. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig, 2000; Plug & Werner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Plug & Werner, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Utikal et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radio Science
Abbreviation	Radio Sci.
ISSN (print)	0048-6604
ISSN (online)	1944-799X
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering Condensed Matter Physics