How to format your references using the Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry - Interdisciplinary Journal for Chemical Problems of the Geosciences and Geoecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry - Interdisciplinary Journal for Chemical Problems of the Geosciences and Geoecology. 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

O’Maille, P., 2015. Microbiology: Fungus against the wall. Nature 521, 168–169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bercovici, D., Ricard, Y., 2014. Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance. Nature 508, 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biek, R., Drummond, A.J., Poss, M., 2006. A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host. Science 311, 538–541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ewald, S.E., Lee, B.L., Lau, L., Wickliffe, K.E., Shi, G.-P., Chapman, H.A., Barton, G.M., 2008. The ectodomain of Toll-like receptor 9 is cleaved to generate a functional receptor. Nature 456, 658–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao, J., 2015. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Aylett, R., Lim, M.Y., Louchart, S., Petta, P., Riedl, M. (Eds.), 2010. Interactive Storytelling: Third Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, November 1-3, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zöller, M., Jung, T., 2011. The Colorectal Cancer Initiating Cell: Markers and Their Role in Liver Metastasis, in: Brodt, P. (Ed.), Liver Metastasis: Biology and Clinical Management, Cancer Metastasis – Biology and Treatment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 89–127.

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 - Geochemistry - Interdisciplinary Journal for Chemical Problems of the Geosciences and Geoecology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. The Latest Planet Hunter is A Dreaming Robot [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-latest-planet-hunter-is-a-dreaming-robot/ (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, 2006. Joint Strike Fighter: DOD Plans to Enter Production before Testing Demonstrates Acceptable Performance (No. GAO-06-356). 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

Nguyen, D., 2009. Deus-ex-machina: A modern skeptic’s relentless scrutiny of the production of ethics in post-colonial literature and postcolonialism (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. The Candidates as Culture Vultures. New York Times 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Maille, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bercovici and Ricard, 2014; O’Maille, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bercovici and Ricard, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ewald et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemie der Erde - Geochemistry - Interdisciplinary Journal for Chemical Problems of the Geosciences and Geoecology
Abbreviation	Chem. Erde
ISSN (print)	0009-2819
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics