How to format your references using the Applied Geochemistry citation style

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

Nattel, S., 2002. New ideas about atrial fibrillation 50 years on. Nature 415, 219–226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xi, Y., Chen, D., 2014. Physiology. Partitioning the circadian clock. Science 345, 1122–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Geisler, J.H., Colbert, M.W., Carew, J.L., 2014. A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation. Nature 508, 383–386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Horner-Devine, M.C., Lage, M., Hughes, J.B., Bohannan, B.J.M., 2004. A taxa-area relationship for bacteria. Nature 432, 750–753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shanmugam, R., Chattamvelli, R., 2015. Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (Eds.), 2016. Orthopedics in Disasters: Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cogliati, B., Seurin, Y., 2016. EWCDM: An Efficient, Beyond-Birthday Secure, Nonce-Misuse Resistant MAC, in: Robshaw, M., Katz, J. (Eds.), Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2016: 36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 14-18, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 121–149.

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 Geochemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. Stars Seen Forming Inside A Supermassive Black Hole’s Winds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/stars-seen-forming-inside-a-supermassive-black-holes-winds/ (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, 2003. Truck Safety: Share the Road Safely Program Needs Better Evaluation of Its Initiatives (No. GAO-03-680). 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

Ly, L., 2017. Performance Appraisal in a Family Business (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Sisario, B., 2017. Stoking Classic Rock Hunger With Concerts on the Coasts. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nattel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nattel, 2002; Xi and Chen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xi and Chen, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Horner-Devine et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Geochemistry
Abbreviation	Appl. Geochem.
ISSN (print)	0883-2927
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Environmental Chemistry Pollution