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

Eisenstein M (2012) Pregnancy: Delivery from breast cancer. Nature 485:S54

A journal article with 2 authors

Jayawardhana R, Ivanov VD (2006) Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary. Science 313:1279–1281

A journal article with 3 authors

Harmon JP, Moran NA, Ives AR (2009) Species response to environmental change: impacts of food web interactions and evolution. Science 323:1347–1350

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sick S, Reinker S, Timmer J, Schlake T (2006) WNT and DKK determine hair follicle spacing through a reaction-diffusion mechanism. Science 314:1447–1450

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nölte J (2005) ICP Emissionsspektrometrie für Praktiker. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

White C (ed) (2009) The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Antontsev S, Shmarev S (2015) Space Localization of Energy Solutions. In: Shmarev S (ed) Evolution PDEs with Nonstandard Growth Conditions: Existence, Uniqueness, Localization, Blow-up. Atlantis Press, Paris, pp 185–217

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

Taub B (2016) Patients Struggle To Read Words When Part Of Their Brain Is Shut Down. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/patients-struggle-to-read-words-when-part-of-their-brain-is-shut-down/. 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 (2015) Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295. 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

Holvick-Norton T (2015) Becoming Whole: The Process of Individuation for Women and Their Bodies. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Hubbard G (2015) Obama’s Bad Economic Ideas. New York Times A27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006; Eisenstein 2012).

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

Two authors: (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sick et al. 2006)

About the journal

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

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