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

Guston DH (2008) Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp. Nature 454:940–941

A journal article with 2 authors

Kasthuri N, Lichtman JW (2003) The role of neuronal identity in synaptic competition. Nature 424:426–430

A journal article with 3 authors

Snyder SA, Gollner A, Chiriac MI (2011) Regioselective reactions for programmable resveratrol oligomer synthesis. Nature 474:461–466

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cheng S-H, Weng T-M, Lu M-L, et al (2013) All carbon-based photodetectors: an eminent integration of graphite quantum dots and two dimensional graphene. Sci Rep 3:2694

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deichmann U (2005) Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Bliesemann de Guevara B (ed) (2016) Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Mei Y, Goenezen S (2015) Spatially Weighted Objective Function to Solve the Inverse Elasticity Problem for the Elastic Modulus. In: Doyle B, Miller K, Wittek A, Nielsen PMF (eds) Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: New Approaches and New Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–58

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

Andrew E (2014) Newly discovered gassy exoplanet has Earth-like mass. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/newly-discovered-gassy-exoplanet-has-earth-mass/. 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 (2003) Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Financial Outlook Is Positive, but the Trust Fund’s Balance Would Be Affected If Taxes Were Suspended. 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

Wright EA (2012) Assessing Leadership Behaviors and Demographic Characteristics of Project Managers Associated Through LinkedIn. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Grynbaum MM (2017) The Battle of ‘Morning Joe’: A Presidential Feud. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guston 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kasthuri and Lichtman 2003; Guston 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kasthuri and Lichtman 2003)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al. 2013)

About the journal

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