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

Stock J (2003) Geophysics. Hotspots come unstuck. Science 301:1059–1060

A journal article with 2 authors

Barker S, Elderfield H (2002) Foraminiferal calcification response to glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2. Science 297:833–836

A journal article with 3 authors

Paggi M, Pohrt R, Popov VL (2014) Partial-slip frictional response of rough surfaces. Sci Rep 4:5178

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Presley JF, Ward TH, Pfeifer AC, et al (2002) Dissection of COPI and Arf1 dynamics in vivo and role in Golgi membrane transport. Nature 417:187–193

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Remy J-G, Letamendia C (2014) LTE Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Valavanis KP, Beard R, Oh P, et al (eds) (2010) Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Amann S, Beyer S, Kevic K, Gall H (2015) Software Mining Studies: Goals, Approaches, Artifacts, and Replicability. In: Meyer B, Nordio M (eds) Software Engineering: International Summer Schools, LASER 2013-2014, Elba, Italy, Revised Tutorial Lectures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 121–158

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

Davis J (2016) July 2016 Was Officially The Hottest Month Ever On Record. In: IFLScience. 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 (1972) Achievements, Cost, and Administration of the Ocean Sediment Coring Program. 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

Bryan JD (2009) Team development social networking and its impact on the encouragement of spiritual leadership. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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) A Rare Desert Bloom. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stock 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Barker and Elderfield 2002; Stock 2003).

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

Two authors: (Barker and Elderfield 2002)
Three or more authors: (Presley et al. 2002)

About the journal

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