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

Robinson, G.E., 2002. Development. Sociogenomics takes flight. Science 297, 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sebolt-Leopold, J.S., English, J.M., 2006. Mechanisms of drug inhibition of signalling molecules. Nature 441, 457–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hao, X., Martin-Rouault, L., Cui, M., 2014. A self-adaptive method for creating high efficiency communication channels through random scattering media. Sci. Rep. 4, 5874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Howells, E.J., Abrego, D., Vaughan, G.O., Burt, J.A., 2014. Coral spawning in the Gulf of Oman and relationship to latitudinal variation in spawning season in the northwest Indian Ocean. Sci. Rep. 4, 7484.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grotewold, E., Chappell, J., Kellogg, E.A., 2015. Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hillebrands, B., Thiaville, A. (Eds.), 2006. Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures III, Topics in Applied Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gjedde, A., Bauer, W.R., Wong, D.F., 2011. Blood–Brain Transfer and Metabolism of Oxygen, in: Bauer, W.R., Wong, D.F. (Eds.), Neurokinetics: The Dynamics of Neurobiology in Vivo. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 153–176.

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

Fang, J., 2014. You Can See A Newly Discovered Comet With Just Binoculars This Week [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-see-comet-jacques-using-just-binoculars/ (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, 1978. Proposed Procedure for Access by GAO to Records of Students in the Murphy School District (No. B-164031(1).174). 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

Packer, C.D., 2013. School Referenda and Ohio Department of Education Typologies: An Investigation of the Outcomes of First Attempt School Operating Levies from 2002–2010 (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

David Goodman, J., White, R., 2015. 2nd Victim Found in Rubble of Brooklyn Building That Exploded. New York Times A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson, 2002; Sebolt-Leopold and English, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sebolt-Leopold and English, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Howells et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Clay Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Clay Sci.
ISSN (print)	0169-1317
ISSN (online)	1872-9053
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geology