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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tsao, D., 2006. Eppendorf 2006 winner. A dedicated system for processing faces. Science 314, 72–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weller, E., Cai, W., 2014. Meridional variability of atmospheric convection associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode. Sci. Rep. 4, 3590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayya, A., Banerjee, A., Rajesh, R., 2013. Mammalian cortical bone in tension is non-Haversian. Sci. Rep. 3, 2533.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, R., Kim, A.S., Fox, J.M., Nair, S., Basore, K., Klimstra, W.B., Rimkunas, R., Fong, R.H., Lin, H., Poddar, S., Crowe, J.E., Jr, Doranz, B.J., Fremont, D.H., Diamond, M.S., 2018. Mxra8 is a receptor for multiple arthritogenic alphaviruses. Nature 557, 570–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisen, P.S., Raghuvanshi, R., 2013. Emerging Epidemics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Titus, T., 2005. Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Stouffs, R., 2015. Sortal Grammars for Urban Design, in: Gero, J.S. (Ed.), Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–66.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. This Robot Will Let Kids In Hospital Explore Zoos Through Virtual Reality [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-will-let-kids-hospital-explore-zoos-through-virtual-reality/ (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, 1995. Federally Funded R&D Centers: Use of Contract Fee by The Aerospace Corporation (No. NSIAD-95-174). 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

Verkaik, P., 2010. Enhancing networking protocols in widely deployed devices (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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. The Rapper Future Sets a Billboard Record. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsao, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Tsao, 2006; Weller and Cai, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Weller and Cai, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2018)

About the journal

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