AGU Citation Style is based on investigations of two manuals: Chicago Manual of Style and Words Into Type. The sphere of its usage is entirely scientific, therefore one of its most peculiar features is usage of punctuation in the extent required for clarity. Because of the increased clarity, hyphenation is often used; as for commas, the balancing ones are forbidden, whilst usage of ordinary commas is accepted around, before and after nonrestrictive clauses and phrases.

AGU Reference List:
include articles, books, reports, papers, electronic material,maps, theses
don’t include unpublished materials
organize references in an alphabetical order by the last name of the author(s)
if there are several works of the same author, the earliest work comes first
if there are several coauthors, list them alphabetically
for more than ten authors use “et. al”
use only initials for first names


AGU Text Citations:
arrange text citations by the last name of the author and the year
if there are two or more publications by the same author in the same year, distinguish them with a, b, c, etc. after the year

AGU Abbreviating Titles:
abbreviate the names of serial publications and reports
don’t abbreviate one word title
omit articles, conjunctions, prepositions, hyphens, parentheses, commas in abbreviated titles

You may find here a lot of AGU citation style examples and a detailed description of referencing in AGU Style.

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