How to format your references using the Reviews of Geophysics citation style

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

Wilson, E. O. (2005). Environment: early ant plagues in the New World. Nature, 433(7021), 32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier, Q., & Wegner, R. (2002). Foreign researchers turn their backs on Germany. Nature, 415(6875), 945.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davidson, E. A., Trumbore, S. E., & Amundson, R. (2000). Soil warming and organic carbon content. Nature, 408(6814), 789–790.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kreuer, S., Hauschild, A., Fink, T., Baumbach, J. I., Maddula, S., & Volk, T. (2014). Two different approaches for pharmacokinetic modeling of exhaled drug concentrations. Scientific Reports, 4, 5423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham, B. M. (2011). Proteomics of Biological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Breslin, J. G. (2009). The Social Semantic Web. (A. Passant & S. Decker, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nunes, B. G., Costa, J. P., & Godinho, P. (2013). On the Application of AHP to the Diagnostic of Portuguese SME. In J. E. Hernández, S. Liu, B. Delibašić, P. Zaraté, F. Dargam, & R. Ribeiro (Eds.), Decision Support Systems II - Recent Developments Applied to DSS Network Environments: Euro Working Group Workshop, EWG-DSS 2012, Liverpool, UK, April 12-13, 2012, and Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-11, 2012, Revised Selected and Extended Papers (pp. 57–71). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Reviews of Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 10). Supernova Observation Sheds Light On The Origins Of Cosmic Dust. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-observation-sheds-light-origins-cosmic-dust/

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. (1977). Potential Problems That Should Be Considered in Evaluating the Experimental Technology Incentives Program (No. PSAD-77-132). 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

Joshi, R. A. (2010). Adaptive nulling in multiple beam antennas using quantized state adaptive algorithms (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. (2005, December 5). Arts Briefly; Film Museum Closes in Moscow. New York Times, p. E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier & Wegner, 2002; Wilson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schiermeier & Wegner, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kreuer et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews of Geophysics
Abbreviation	Rev. Geophys.
ISSN (online)	1944-9208
Scope	Geophysics