How to format your references using the Applied Clay Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Clay Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

Eagleman, D.M., 2005. Comment on “The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret.” Science 308, 1260; author reply 1260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nagamatsu, S., Ohara-Imaizumi, M., 2007. Cell biology. IP7 debut in insulin release. Science 318, 1249–1250.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lourens, L.J., Wehausen, R., Brumsack, H.J., 2001. Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years. Nature 409, 1029–1033.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Iwasato, T., Datwani, A., Wolf, A.M., Nishiyama, H., Taguchi, Y., Tonegawa, S., Knöpfel, T., Erzurumlu, R.S., Itohara, S., 2000. Cortex-restricted disruption of NMDAR1 impairs neuronal patterns in the barrel cortex. Nature 406, 726–731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher, M., Wolf, A., 2014. Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Deer, T.R., Pope, J.E. (Eds.), 2016. Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management, 2nd ed. 2016. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Tasquier, L., Venticinque, S., Aversa, R., Di Martino, B., 2013. Agent Based Application Tools for Cloud Provisioning and Management, in: Yousif, M., Schubert, L. (Eds.), Cloud Computing: Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 32–42.

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 Applied Clay Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. DNA Scissors Can Perform Surgery On Your Genes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-scissors-can-perform-surgery-your-genes/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Head Start: A More Comprehensive Risk Management Strategy and Data Improvements Could Further Strengthen Program Oversight (No. GAO-08-221). 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

Ballard, K.J., 2012. Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G., 2015. ‘Cheaters’ Give Rise to Cancer. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eagleman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Eagleman, 2005; Nagamatsu and Ohara-Imaizumi, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nagamatsu and Ohara-Imaizumi, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Iwasato et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Clay Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Clay Sci.
ISSN (print)	0169-1317
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geology