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

Butler D (2003) Report backs military axis on space. Nature 421:301

A journal article with 2 authors

Mohd-Sarip A, Verrijzer CP (2004) Molecular biology. A higher order of silence. Science 306:1484–1485

A journal article with 3 authors

Galli SJ, Tsai M, Piliponsky AM (2008) The development of allergic inflammation. Nature 454:445–454

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Imasaki T, Calero G, Cai G, et al (2011) Architecture of the Mediator head module. Nature 475:240–243

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsch R (2017) Convergence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Anpo M, Kamat PV (eds) (2010) Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts: Applications of Titanium Oxide-based Materials, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Jousselme A-L, Maupin P (2016) Uncertainty Representations for Information Retrieval with Missing Data. In: Rogova G, Scott P (eds) Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management: Higher Level Fusion and Decision Making. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–104

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 (2014) Small Glitches, But Rosetta Comet Mission Is Achieving Major Scientific Goals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/small-glitches-rosetta-comet-mission-achieving-major-scientific-goals/. 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 (2007) Freight Railroads: Electronic Supplement on Rates and Other Industry Trends, 1985-2005 (GAO-07-292SP), an E-supplement to GAO-07-291R. 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

Shaker M (2015) Design of Front End Circuits for a Low Power Ultra Wide Band Receiver. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Brantley B (2017) Amid the Clutter Lies Some Clarity. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2003; Mohd-Sarip and Verrijzer 2004).

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

Two authors: (Mohd-Sarip and Verrijzer 2004)
Three or more authors: (Imasaki et al. 2011)

About the journal

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