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

Macilwain, C.: Meeting hints at thaw in relations between genome rivals, Nature, 411, 726, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, D. H. and Bloom, G.: Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets, Nature, 487, 163–165, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghaffari, H. O., Nasseri, M. H. B., and Young, R. P.: Faulting of rocks in a three-dimensional stress field by micro-anticracks, Sci. Rep., 4, 5011, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Park, I.-K., Qian, D., Kiel, M., Becker, M. W., Pihalja, M., Weissman, I. L., Morrison, S. J., and Clarke, M. F.: Bmi-1 is required for maintenance of adult self-renewing haematopoietic stem cells, Nature, 423, 302–305, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C.: Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Yin, H.: Optical Code Division Multiple Access Communication Networks: Theory and Applications, edited by: Richardson, D. J., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XI, 382 p pp., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Moss, S. and Hurley, A. D.: Integrating Assessment Instruments within the Diagnostic Process, in: Handbook of Psychopathology in Intellectual Disability: Research, Practice, and Policy, edited by: Tsakanikos, E. and McCarthy, J., Springer, New York, NY, 43–61, 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

Major Breakthrough Could Enable Mass Produced Artificial Blood: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/major-breakthrough-could-enable-mass-produced-artificial-blood/, 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: Human Factors: Status of Efforts to Integrate Research on Human Factors Into FAA’s Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shaker, M.: Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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

Vecsey, G.: After Long Hours, the Red Sox Keep a Slim Lead, New York Times, 26th September, D7, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2001; Peters and Bloom, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Bloom, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Park 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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