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

Lewis, R., 2008. A career at the museum. Nature 451, 218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jagoutz, O., Behn, M.D., 2013. Foundering of lower island-arc crust as an explanation for the origin of the continental Moho. Nature 504, 131–134.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pool, J.A., Lobkovsky, E., Chirik, P.J., 2004. Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex. Nature 427, 527–530.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Földvári-Nagy, L., Ari, E., Csermely, P., Korcsmáros, T., Vellai, T., 2014. Starvation-response may not involve Atg1-dependent autophagy induction in non-unikont parasites. Sci. Rep. 4, 5829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gowler, D.B., 2013. James Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Tsoulfanidis, N. (Ed.), 2013. Nuclear Energy: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Santodonato, L.J., Liaw, P.K., 2016. Advanced Characterization Techniques, in: Gao, M.C., Yeh, J.-W., Liaw, P.K., Zhang, Y. (Eds.), High-Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 115–150.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Biologists Discover New “Silver Boa” Species Of Snake On Remote Caribbean Island [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/biologists-discover-silver-boa-remote-caribbean-island/ (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, 1996. EPA: Final Regulations for Revisions to the Federal Test Procedure for Emissions from Motor Vehicles (No. OGC-96-42). 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

Williams, A., 2010. Kindergarten through third grade reading tutors in Northeast Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kelly, F., 1985. MEMORIAL MUSEUM TO HONOR STATE POLICE. New York Times 11NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Jagoutz and Behn, 2013; Lewis, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Jagoutz and Behn, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Földvári-Nagy et al., 2014)

About the journal

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