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

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

Earnshaw WC (2005) Cell biology. Keeping survivin nimble at centromeres in mitosis. Science 310:1443–1444

A journal article with 2 authors

Allsop DJ, West SA (2003) Life history: changing sex at the same relative body size. Nature 425:783–784

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurland CG, Collins LJ, Penny D (2006) Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryote cells. Science 312:1011–1014

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wudick MM, Portes MT, Michard E, et al (2018) CORNICHON sorting and regulation of GLR channels underlie pollen tube Ca2+ homeostasis. Science 360:533–536

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Orchin M, Macomber RS, Pinhas AR, Wilson RM (2005) The Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wessells H (ed) (2013) Urological Emergencies: A Practical Approach, 2nd ed. 2013. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Faure V, Kawai Y (2016) Heat and salt budgets of the mixed layer around the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific Ocean. In: Nakamura H, Isobe A, Minobe S, et al. (eds) “Hot Spots” in the Climate System: New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 59–72

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 Volcanology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Read Roald Dahl’s Heartbreaking Letter Urging Parents To Vaccinate. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/read-roald-dahls-heartbreaking-letter-urging-parents-vaccinate/. 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 (1991) Commercial Use of Space: Many Grantees Making Progress, but NASA Oversight Could Be Improved. 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

Jackson M (2013) Creating community in a dual immersion program: 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

Montague J (2017) Caution: Team Under Construction. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Earnshaw 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Allsop and West 2003; Earnshaw 2005).

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

Two authors: (Allsop and West 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wudick et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Volcanology
Abbreviation	Bull. Volcanol.
ISSN (print)	0258-8900
ISSN (online)	1432-0819
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology