How to format your references using the Bulletin of Geosciences citation style

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

Barbier, E. 2012. Sustainability: Tax ‘societal ills’ to save the planet. Nature 483(7387), 30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldy, J.E. & Stavins, R.N. 2012. Climate change. Climate negotiators create an opportunity for scholars. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6098), 1043–1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mukandavire, Z., Smith, D.L. & Morris, J.G., Jr. 2013. Cholera in Haiti: reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates. Scientific reports 3, 997.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ashida, H., Saito, Y., Kojima, C., Kobayashi, K., Ogasawara, N. & Yokota, A. 2003. A functional link between RuBisCO-like protein of Bacillus and photosynthetic RuBisCO. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5643), 286–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, F.J. & Drake, P.P. 2009. Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ho, T.B., Cheung, D. & Liu, H. (eds). 2005. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 9th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 18-20, 2005. Proceedings. XXI, 864 p pp. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Groundwater-Smith, S. & Irwin, J. 2011. Action Researchaction research in Educationeducation and Social Worksocial work. In: Markauskaite, L., Freebody, P. & Irwin, J. (eds) Methodological Choice and Design: Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 57–69.

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 Bulletin of Geosciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2015. This Robotic Finger Looks and Flexes Just Like Your Own. IFLScience. World Wide Web Address: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-finger-looks-and-flexes-just-your-own/

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. 1992. Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Incorporation of Existing Data Into EOSDIS. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-92-79.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rollo, E. 2013. Effect of the Stoplight Diet and Mode of Intervention on Triglyceride Production in a Veteran Population. 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

St. John Kelly, E. 1993. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1321.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barbier 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barbier 2012; Aldy & Stavins 2012).

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

Two authors: (Aldy & Stavins 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ashida et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Geosciences
ISSN (print)	1214-1119
ISSN (online)	1802-8225
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