How to format your references using the Acta Geochimica citation style

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

Behrensmeyer AK (2006) Atmosphere. Climate change and human evolution. Science 311:476–478

A journal article with 2 authors

Maniatis T, Tasic B (2002) Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and proteome expansion in metazoans. Nature 418:236–243

A journal article with 3 authors

Wake DB, Wake MH, Specht CD (2011) Homoplasy: from detecting pattern to determining process and mechanism of evolution. Science 331:1032–1035

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cui Y, Yang Y, Ni Z, et al (2018) Astroglial Kir4.1 in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursts in depression. Nature 554:323–327

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li F-C, Yu B, Wei J-J, Kawaguchi Y (2011) Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore

An edited book

Desfray P, Filipe J, Hammoudi S, Pires LF (eds) (2015) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development: Third International Conference, MODELSWARD 2015, Angers, France, February 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Knobloch E (2015) Analyticité, équipollence et théorie des courbes chez Leibniz. In: Goethe NB, Beeley P, Rabouin D (eds) G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 89–110

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 Acta Geochimica.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Plague Outbreak In USA Is Traced To Pet Dog. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) GSA’s Administration of the Automatic Data Processing Equipment (ADPE) Interim Upgrade Acquisition Policy. 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

Manley Lima MC (2014) Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kishkovsky S (2015) Yuri Afanasyev, Ex-Communist Scholar, Dies at 81. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Behrensmeyer 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Maniatis and Tasic 2002; Behrensmeyer 2006).

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

Two authors: (Maniatis and Tasic 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cui et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Geochimica
Abbreviation	Acta Geochim.
ISSN (print)	2096-0956
ISSN (online)	2365-7499
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology