How to format your references using the Surveys in Geophysics citation style

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

Linsky JL (2011) Astronomy. Voyagers of discovery. Science 334:1647–1648

A journal article with 2 authors

Zarin DA, Tse T (2008) Medicine. Moving toward transparency of clinical trials. Science 319:1340–1342

A journal article with 3 authors

Baugh LR, Demodena J, Sternberg PW (2009) RNA Pol II accumulates at promoters of growth genes during developmental arrest. Science 324:92–94

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shin J, Bossenz M, Chung Y, et al (2010) Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice. Nature 467:977–981

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Räisänen V (2006) Service Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dimitrijević B (ed) (2013) Innovations for Sustainable Building Design and Refurbishment in Scotland: The Outputs of CIC Start Online Project. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

van Grembergen W, de Haes S (2009) COBIT as a Framework for Enterprise Governance of IT. In: Van Grembergen W (ed) Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 137–164

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 Surveys in Geophysics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) How To Cook A Steak With Lava. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-cook-steak-lava/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry. 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

Murdock M (2010) Memoir as contemporary myth. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Crow K (2001) City Is to Build the Largest DNA Lab, for a Grim Task. New York Times 147

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linsky 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Zarin and Tse 2008; Linsky 2011).

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

Two authors: (Zarin and Tse 2008)
Three or more authors: (Shin et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Surveys in Geophysics
Abbreviation	Surv. Geophys.
ISSN (print)	0169-3298
ISSN (online)	1573-0956
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics