How to format your references using the Biogeochemistry citation style

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

Bonetta L (2010) Protein-protein interactions: Tools for the search. Nature 468:852

A journal article with 2 authors

Boller T, He SY (2009) Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens. Science 324:742–744

A journal article with 3 authors

Zylka MJ, Philpot BD, King IF (2014) Zylka et al. reply. Nature 512:E2

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bokoch MP, Zou Y, Rasmussen SGF, et al (2010) Ligand-specific regulation of the extracellular surface of a G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature 463:108–112

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molino Sr. LN (2006) Emergency Incident Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lazaridis G, Campani G, Benveniste A (eds) (2016) The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and “Othering.” Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Hämmerli M (2016) Orthodox Church(es) Stepping out of the Orthodox Heartland. In: Snyder S, Ralston J, Brazal AM (eds) Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 51–63

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 Biogeochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) DIY Can Be Dangerous – But It’s The Invisible Dust That May Harm You The Most. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/diy-can-be-dangerous-it-s-invisible-dust-may-harm-you-most/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1975) Assessing the Federal Program for Strengthening Developing Institutions of Higher Education. 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

Coleman KM (2015) Parent involvement in the promotion of healthy outcomes for young girls: A grant writing project. 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

Braffet K (2016) Wonder Women in Manhattan. New York Times BR12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonetta 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Boller and He 2009; Bonetta 2010).

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

Two authors: (Boller and He 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bokoch et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biogeochemistry
Abbreviation	Biogeochemistry
ISSN (print)	0168-2563
ISSN (online)	1573-515X
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology