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

Clutton-Brock T (2002) Breeding together: kin selection and mutualism in cooperative vertebrates. Science 296:69–72

A journal article with 2 authors

Largeron M, Fleury M-B (2013) Chemistry. Bioinspired oxidation catalysts. Science 339:43–44

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn SG, Campbell EB, MacKinnon R (2014) Physical mechanism for gating and mechanosensitivity of the human TRAAK K+ channel. Nature 516:126–130

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Burruel V, Klooster K, Barker CM, et al (2014) Abnormal early cleavage events predict early embryo demise: sperm oxidative stress and early abnormal cleavage. Sci Rep 4:6598

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon C, Hale R (2012) Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rossi M, Sasso M, Connesson N, et al (eds) (2014) Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hu M, Wu Z-Q, Liu Y (2009) The fish fauna of mountain streams in the Guanshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. In: Noakes DLG, Romero A, Zhao Y, Zhou Y (eds) Chinese Fishes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 23–27

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

Andrew E (2015) Kenya Is A Breastfeeding Success Story But Still Has Its Challenges. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/kenya-breastfeeding-success-story-still-has-its-challenges/. 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 (1998) Federal Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s 1997 Award Selection. 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

Wager L (2009) Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment: The role of other discipline strategies. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Paulson M (2017) Ahead of Tonys, Watching Everything. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clutton-Brock 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Clutton-Brock 2002; Largeron and Fleury 2013).

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

Two authors: (Largeron and Fleury 2013)
Three or more authors: (Burruel et al. 2014)

About the journal

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