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

Madden, J.D., 2006. Materials science. Artificial muscle begins to breathe. Science 311, 1559–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic, I., Sonenberg, N., 2010. Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science 327, 1210–1211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pullium, J.K., Roble, G.S., Raymond, M.A., 2014. Emergency planning: Be prepared. Nature 514, 430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ichiki, K., Takahashi, K., Ohno, H., Hanayama, H., Sugiyama, N., 2006. Cosmological magnetic field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe. Science 311, 827–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todinov, M.T., 2005. Reliability and Risk Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Meeks, S., 2016. The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation Is Reviving America’s Communities. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC.

A chapter in an edited book

Sacco, R., 2009. Numerical Simulation of Thermal Oxidation Process in Semiconductor Devices Using Mixed—Hybrid Finite Elements, in: Carstensen, C., Wriggers, P. (Eds.), Mixed Finite Element Technologies, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer, Vienna, pp. 107–130.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Stocking Stuffer Ideas For Science Fans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-stocking-stuffer-ideas/ (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, 1977. Award of Grant by the San Francisco Operations Office of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration for the Energy Awareness Project (No. EMD-78-14). 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

Garfield-Kabbara, J.N., 2014. Through the Portal of Shame: A Path Toward Self-Love for Fatherless Daughters Living in Patriarchy (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kelly, D.A., 2010. Staying in Touch, for Less. New York Times TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Madden, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Madden, 2006; Topisirovic and Sonenberg, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Topisirovic and Sonenberg, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ichiki et al., 2006)

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