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

Sloggett JJ (2013) Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science 341:1342

A journal article with 2 authors

deHaseth PL, Nilsen TW (2004) Molecular biology. When a part is as good as the whole. Science 303:1307–1308

A journal article with 3 authors

Delamarre L, Mellman I, Yadav M (2015) Cancer immunotherapy. Neo approaches to cancer vaccines. Science 348:760–761

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Semmens JM, Payne NL, Huveneers C, et al (2013) Feeding requirements of white sharks may be higher than originally thought. Sci Rep 3:1471

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marx FG, Lambert O, Uhen MD (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Giannoccaro I (ed) (2013) Behavioral Issues in Operations Management: New Trends in Design, Management, and Methodologies. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Fu Q, Wu Z, Ying X, et al (2016) Generating Chinese Calligraphy on Freeform Shapes. In: Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Sourin A (eds) Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 69–87

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

Luntz S (2017) Wearable Sweat Tests Could Be Pain-Free Future Of Controlling Diabetes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/wearable-sweat-tests-could-be-painfree-future-of-controlling-diabetes/. 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 (2011) Traffic and Vehicle Safety: Reauthorization Offers Opportunities to Extend Recent Progress. 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

Cusick JA (2012) Does size really matter? How synchrony and size affect the dynamic of aggression between two sympatric species of dolphin in the Bahamas. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Crow K (2002) Taming the Biblical Plagues Of Mud and Frogs at a Meadow. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sloggett 2013).
This sentence cites two references (deHaseth and Nilsen 2004; Sloggett 2013).

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

Two authors: (deHaseth and Nilsen 2004)
Three or more authors: (Semmens 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