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

Maxmen, A., 2010. Grassroots initiatives. Nature 466, S20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shin, H., Iwasaki, A., 2012. A vaccine strategy that protects against genital herpes by establishing local memory T cells. Nature 491, 463–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robison, B.H., Reisenbichler, K.R., Sherlock, R.E., 2005. Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor. Science 308, 1609–1611.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Quinlan, M.E., Heuser, J.E., Kerkhoff, E., Mullins, R.D., 2005. Drosophila Spire is an actin nucleation factor. Nature 433, 382–388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener, E., 2003. Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Arge, L., Cachin, C., Jurdziński, T., Tarlecki, A. (Eds.), 2007. Automata, Languages and Programming: 34th International Colloquium, ICALP 2007, Wrocław, Poland, July 9-13, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Akiyama, J., Matsunaga, K., 2015. Platonic Solids, in: Matsunaga, K. (Ed.), Treks into Intuitive Geometry: The World of Polygons and Polyhedra. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 143–158.

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 Chemical Geology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Greek City Trials Eco-Friendly Driverless Buses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/greek-city-trialling-eco-friendly-driverless-buses/ (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, 1980. Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress (No. PAD-80-49). 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

Slotnick, A., 2012. Status symbols in triathlete culture (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Rao, T., 2017. Comfort Food. New York Times BR13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Maxmen, 2010; Shin and Iwasaki, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Shin and Iwasaki, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Quinlan et al., 2005)

About the journal

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