How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Neuenschwander, P. 2004. Harnessing nature in Africa. Nature 432, 801–802.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaeger, J.-J., and Marivaux, L. 2005. Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 244–245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martill, D.M., Tischlinger, H., and Longrich, N.R. 2015. EVOLUTION. A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349, 416–419.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xia, Z.-P., Sun, L., Chen, X., Pineda, G., Jiang, X., Adhikari, A., Zeng, W., and Chen, Z.J. 2009. Direct activation of protein kinases by unanchored polyubiquitin chains. Nature 461, 114–119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burger, M., Graeber, B., and Schindlmayr, G. 2014. Managing Energy Risk (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).

An edited book

2008. Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Zeira, A. 2010. Testing Practice Wisdom in Child Welfare. In From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Policy Making, S.B. Kamerman, S. Phipps, and A. Ben-Arieh, eds. (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), pp. 49–63.

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 Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. In Praise Of The Humble Fruit Fly, Leading The Way On Cancer Research (IFLScience).

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 2016. Emergency Management: Improved Federal Coordination Could Better Assist K-12 Schools Prepare for Emergencies (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Davidson, W.B. 2010. High school athletics and the “whole adolescent”: A case study of three urban high schools. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2009. Putin’s Party Wins in Regional Elections Across Russia. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neuenschwander, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Neuenschwander, 2004; Jaeger and Marivaux, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jaeger and Marivaux, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xia et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)	0812-0099
ISSN (online)	1440-0952
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) General Environmental Science