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

Baker, D.F. 2007. Climate change. Reassessing carbon sinks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, 1708–1709.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Graaf, J., and Manna, L. 2012. Materials science. A roadmap for the assembly of polyhedral particles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337, 417–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Do-Monte, F.H., Quiñones-Laracuente, K., and Quirk, G.J. 2015. A temporal shift in the circuits mediating retrieval of fear memory. Nature 519, 460–463.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Clutton-Brock, T.H., Russell, A.F., Sharpe, L.L., Young, A.J., Balmforth, Z., and McIlrath, G.M. 2002. Evolution and development of sex differences in cooperative behavior in meerkats. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 253–256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Louis, J.-P. 2011. Control of Synchronous Motors (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc).

An edited book

Norman, R.A. 2015. Clinical Cases in Integrative Dermatology (Cham: Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

de Meatza, I., Miguel, O., Cendoya, I., Kim, G.-T., Löffler, N., Laszczynski, N., Passerini, S., Schweizer, P.M., Castiglione, F., Mele, A., et al. 2015. GREENLION Project: Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion Batteries. In Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative, E. Briec, and B. Müller, eds. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 45–60.

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

Carpineti, A. 2016. Saturn Hexagonal Storm Changes Color (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 1980. Computers in Government: We Couldn’t Do Without Them (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

Sommer, A. 2017. How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University.

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

Saslow, L. 2008. On the Beach, the Yoga Poses Really Flow. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2007; de Graaf and Manna, 2012).

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

Two authors: (de Graaf and Manna, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Clutton-Brock et al., 2002)

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