How to format your references using the Chemical Geology citation style

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

Stefánsson, K., 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. An anniversary party. Science 331, 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, F., Zhou, Z., 2004. Palaeontology: leg feathers in an Early Cretaceous bird. Nature 431, 925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler, S.J., Vickery, J.A., Norris, K., 2007. Farmland biodiversity and the footprint of agriculture. Science 315, 381–384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brown, S., Janssen, M., Adumitroaie, V., Atreya, S., Bolton, S., Gulkis, S., Ingersoll, A., Levin, S., Li, C., Li, L., Lunine, J., Misra, S., Orton, G., Steffes, P., Tabataba-Vakili, F., Kolmašová, I., Imai, M., Santolík, O., Kurth, W., Hospodarsky, G., Gurnett, D., Connerney, J., 2018. Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles. Nature 558, 87–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M.C., 2007. HPLC. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lajtha, A., Baker, G., Dunn, S., Holt, A. (Eds.), 2007. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Practical Neurochemistry Methods. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Lun, D.S., Ho, T., Ratnakar, N., Médard, M., Koetter, R., 2006. Network Coding in Wireless Networks, in: Fitzek, F.H.P., Katz, M.D. (Eds.), Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications: Real Egoistic Behavior Is to Cooperate! Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 127–161.

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 Chemical Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Why Zebra Refused To Be Saddled With Domesticity [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-zebra-refused-to-be-saddled-with-domesticity/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Motor Carrier Academy (No. RCED-95-43R). 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

Merkurjev, D., 2015. Understanding Enhancer Role in Transcriptional Response (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Sang-Hun, C., 2017. Accused of ‘Hostile Acts,’ a 4th American Citizen Is Detained by North Korea. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stefánsson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Stefánsson, 2011; Zhang and Zhou, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Zhou, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemical Geology
Abbreviation	Chem. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0009-2541
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geology