How to format your references using the Russian Geology and Geophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Russian Geology and 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

Aspinall, W., 2010. A route to more tractable expert advice. Nature 463, 294–295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeomans, D.K., Veverka, J., 2004. Obituary: Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906-2004). Nature 432, 31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, J.D., Scott, E.C., Okamoto, S., 2006. Science communication. Public acceptance of evolution. Science 313, 765–766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, H., Chang, S., Smith, M., Gradečak, S., Kong, J., 2013. Interface engineering of graphene for universal applications as both anode and cathode in organic photovoltaics. Sci. Rep. 3, 1581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Botto, F., 2003. Dictionary of e-Business. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sun, F., Li, T., Li, H. (Eds.), 2014. Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (ISKE 2012), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zwikael, O., Smyrk, J., 2011. Starting a New Project, in: Smyrk, J. (Ed.), Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value. Springer, London, pp. 135–180.

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 Russian Geology and Geophysics.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Ongoing Algal Blooms Linked To The Largest Die-Off Of Great Whales Ever Recorded [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ongoing-algal-blooms-linked-largest-die-great-whales-ever-recorded/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Critical Infrastructure: Challenges Remain in Protecting Key Sectors (No. GAO-07-626T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tablason, J.M., 2014. Recollecting (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

Billard, M., 2010. Wheels With Women in Mind. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aspinall, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Aspinall, 2010; Yeomans and Veverka, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yeomans and Veverka, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Russian Geology and Geophysics
Abbreviation	Russ. Geol. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	1068-7971
Scope	Geology Geophysics