How to format your references using the Carbonates and Evaporites citation style

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

Abdool Karim SS (2011) Stigma impedes AIDS prevention. Nature 474:29–31

A journal article with 2 authors

Wodarz D, Zauber AG (2015) Cancer: Risk factors and random chances. Nature 517:563–564

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen TD, Ehrenfreund E, Vardeny ZV (2012) Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science 337:204–209

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kogar A, Rak MS, Vig S, et al (2017) Signatures of exciton condensation in a transition metal dichalcogenide. Science 358:1314–1317

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahgat G (2011) Energy Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Koutsouris D-D, Lazakidou AA (eds) (2014) Concepts and Trends in Healthcare Information Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nicholson BD (2015) Anticonvulsant Medications for Treatment of Neuropathic and “Functional” Pain. In: Deer TR, Leong MS, Gordin V (eds) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical Approaches: the AMERICAN ACADEMY of PAIN MEDICINE Textbook on Patient Management. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–57

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 Carbonates and Evaporites.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) No, An Asteroid Isn’t Going To Hit Earth And Kill Us All Any Time Soon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-asteroid-isnt-going-hit-earth-and-kill-us-all-any-time-soon/. 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 (1998) Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates. 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

Hung H-C (2006) Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Austen I, Chapman MM (2015) A Slow Thaw for the Great Lakes. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abdool Karim 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Abdool Karim 2011; Wodarz and Zauber 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wodarz and Zauber 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kogar et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Carbonates and Evaporites
Abbreviation	Carbonates Evaporites
ISSN (print)	0891-2556
ISSN (online)	1878-5212
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology