How to format your references using the Advances in Geosciences citation style

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

Schaefer, H. F.: Paul von Ragué Schleyer (1930-2014), Nature, 517, 22, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodroffe, R. and Redpath, S. M.: CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted, Science, 348, 1312–1314, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Totan, Y., Güler, E., and Dervişoğulları, M. S.: Brilliant Blue G assisted epiretinal membrane surgery, Sci. Rep., 4, 3956, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Iwashita, T., Kruger, G. M., Pardal, R., Kiel, M. J., and Morrison, S. J.: Hirschsprung disease is linked to defects in neural crest stem cell function, Science, 301, 972–976, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, R. C.: The Hedge Fund Book, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Balkun, M. M. and Imbarrato, S. C. (Eds.): Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, X, 286 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Berman, L. W.: Geometric Constructions for Symmetric 6-Configurations, in: Rigidity and Symmetry, edited by: Connelly, R., Ivić Weiss, A., and Whiteley, W., Springer, New York, NY, 61–85, 2014.

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 Advances in Geosciences.

Blog post

80% Of Cervical Cancers Preventable With Latest HPV Vaccine: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/80-cervical-cancers-preventable-latest-hpv-vaccine/, last access: 30 October 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: Guaranteed Student Loans: Analysis of Student Default Rates at 7,800 Postsecondary Schools, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bradford, A.: Internationalization Policy at the Genba: Exploring the Implementation of Social Science English-Taught Undergraduate Degree Programs in Three Japanese Universities, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

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

Walsh, M. W. and Davey, M.: Detroit Clears Crucial Hurdle on Bankruptcy, New York Times, 10th September, A1, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaefer, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schaefer, 2015; Woodroffe and Redpath, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Woodroffe and Redpath, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Iwashita et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Geosciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1680-7340
ISSN (online)	1680-7359
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