How to format your references using the AAPG Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AAPG Bulletin. 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 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.

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

Meyer, M. N., 2014, Misjudgements will drive social trials underground: Nature, v. 511, no. 7509, p. 265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson, P. N., and M. R. Palmer, 2000, Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years: Nature, v. 406, no. 6797, p. 695–699.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moran, N. A., H. J. McLaughlin, and R. Sorek, 2009, The dynamics and time scale of ongoing genomic erosion in symbiotic bacteria: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 323, no. 5912, p. 379–382.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dormitzer, P. R., E. B. Nason, B. V. V. Prasad, and S. C. Harrison, 2004, Structural rearrangements in the membrane penetration protein of a non-enveloped virus: Nature, v. 430, no. 7003, p. 1053–1058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W.-Y., 2013, NeuroInvesting: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Beek, M. H. T., and N. Lohmann (eds.), 2013, Web Services and Formal Methods: 9th International Workshop, WS-FM 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, September 6-7, 2012, Revised Selected Papers: Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, X, 151 p. 55 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawano, T., N. Iwama, H. Ishihata, H. Shimauchi, and M. Shimomura, 2012, Preparation and Biomedical Application of Self-Organized Honeycomb-Patterned Polymer Films, in K. Sasaki, O. Suzuki, and N. Takahashi, eds., Interface Oral Health Science 2011: Tokyo, Springer Japan, p. 22–26.

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 AAPG Bulletin.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2015, 3D Electron Discovery In High-Temperature Superconductor Could Lead To Breakthrough: IFLScience: <https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-discovery-get-us-closer-fully-understand-high-temperature-superconductors/> (accessed October 30, 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, 2004, NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits, GAO-04-648R: 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

Crossman, D. C., 2008, The impact of safety culture on worker motivation and the economic bottom line, Doctoral dissertation: Minneapolis, MN, Capella University.

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

George, R. P., 2012, Interpretive Freedom: p. BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pearson and Palmer, 2000; Meyer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pearson and Palmer, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Dormitzer et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	AAPG Bulletin
Abbreviation	Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0149-1423
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry and Petrology Geology Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology