How to format your references using the Chemie der Erde citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemie der Erde. 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

Bakalar, N., 2012. Sensory science: partners in flavour. Nature 486, S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

van der Marel, D., Sawatzky, G.A., 2014. Physics. An optical twist for triplet superconductors. Science 345, 138–139.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, C., Linde, A.T., Sacks, I.S., 2009. Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons. Nature 459, 833–836.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vernazza, P., Binzel, R.P., Thomas, C.A., DeMeo, F.E., Bus, S.J., Rivkin, A.S., Tokunaga, A.T., 2008. Compositional differences between meteorites and near-Earth asteroids. Nature 454, 858–860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimer, T., Werner, M., 2004. Die Zukunft der Mikrosystemtechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Bengio, S., Bourlard, H. (Eds.), 2005. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: First International Workshop, MLMI 2004, Martigny, Switzerland, June 21-23, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

van Garsse, L., 2016. Has Probation Any Impact in Terms of Reparation to Victims and Communities? Complicating a Simple Question, in: McNeill, F., Durnescu, I., Butter, R. (Eds.), Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 85–105.

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 Chemie der Erde.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. Sobering Sea Ice Levels Are The 'New Normal”, According To NASA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sobering-sea-ice-levels-are-the-new-normal-according-to-nasa/ (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, 2007. Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy (No. GAO-07-988T). 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

Boggs, B.D., 2012. An assessment of campus police departments across Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Hollander, S., 2002. Game and the Season End In Frustration for the Power. New York Times 85.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bakalar, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bakalar, 2012; van der Marel and Sawatzky, 2014).

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

Two authors: (van der Marel and Sawatzky, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vernazza et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemie der Erde
Abbreviation	Chem. Erde
ISSN (print)	0009-2819
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics