This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical Geology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.
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. |
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| 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 references management programs. |
| BibTeX | BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal. |
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 authorBrune, H., 2006. Applied physics. Assembly and probing of spin chains of finite size. Science 312, 1005–1006.
A journal article with 2 authors Salzman, H., Lowell, L., 2008. Making the grade. Nature 453, 28–30. A journal article with 3 authorsChalasani, R., Gupta, A., Vasudevan, S., 2013. Engineering new layered solids from exfoliated inorganics: a periodically alternating hydrotalcite-montmorillonite layered hybrid. Sci. Rep. 3, 3498.
A journal article with 4 or more authorsPors, A., Albrektsen, O., Radko, I.P., Bozhevolnyi, S.I., 2013. Gap plasmon-based metasurfaces for total control of reflected light. Sci. Rep. 3, 2155.
Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.
An authored book Bejan, A., 2016. Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. An edited bookGrossweiner, L.I., 2005. The Science of Phototherapy: An Introduction. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.
A chapter in an edited bookKossack, N.J., Gromoll, J., Reijo Pera, R.A., 2009. Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Germ Cell Development, in: Rajasekhar, V.K., Vemuri, M.C. (Eds.), Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 55–66.
Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Chemical Geology.
Andrew, E., 2014. Simple But Mindblowing Helium Balloon Experiment [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/simple-mindblowing-helium-balloon-experiment/ (accessed 10.30.18).
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 reportGovernment Accountability Office, 1976. Consolidation of Computer-Output-Microfilm Facilities in Hawaii (No. LCD-76-129). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.
Doctoral dissertationCappiello, D.M., 2010. Minding the gap: Western export controls and soviet technology policy during the 1960s (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.
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 Kelly, D.A., 2004. 36 Hours | Williamsburg, Va. New York Times F5.References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:
This sentence cites one reference (Brune, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Brune, 2006; Salzman and Lowell, 2008).
Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:
| Full journal title | Chemical Geology |
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| Abbreviation | Chem. Geol. |
| ISSN (print) | 0009-2541 |
| Scope | Geochemistry and Petrology Geology |