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

Masood, E., 2013. Pakistan must seize the chance to revive its science. Nature 500, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sonderegger, P., Patthy, L., 2007. Comment on “Tequila, a neurotrypsin ortholog, regulates long-term memory formation in Drosophila.” Science 316, 1698; author reply 1698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelly, B.P., Whiteley, A., Tallmon, D., 2010. The Arctic melting pot. Nature 468, 891.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jones, J.T.A., Hasell, T., Wu, X., Bacsa, J., Jelfs, K.E., Schmidtmann, M., Chong, S.Y., Adams, D.J., Trewin, A., Schiffman, F., Cora, F., Slater, B., Steiner, A., Day, G.M., Cooper, A.I., 2011. Modular and predictable assembly of porous organic molecular crystals. Nature 474, 367–371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padmanabhan, T.R., Bala Tripura Sundari, B., 2005. Design Through Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bambi, C., 2016. Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems, UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

von der Malsburg, C., 2014. Physics and Our Intuitive Outlook on Time, in: Albeverio, S., Blanchard, P. (Eds.), Direction of Time. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–48.

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

Luntz, S., 2017. Jade Pendant’s Inscription Reveals New Aspect To Mayan Civilization [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/jade-pendants-inscription-reveals-new-aspect-to-mayan-civilization/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Progress Made at Department of Labor, But Key Systems at Risk (No. T-AIMD-98-303). 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

Roediger, E., 2015. Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2017. Just 40% of Losses May Be Covered, and Taxpayers Will Bear Most. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Masood, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Masood, 2013; Sonderegger and Patthy, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sonderegger and Patthy, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al., 2011)

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