How to format your references using the China Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China 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	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

Sundqvist, B., 2014. Mapping intermolecular bonding in C₆₀. Sci. Rep. 4, 6171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bengtson, S., Budd, G., 2004. Comment on “Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian.” Science 306, 1291; author reply 1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Camilleri, E., Rohde, P.P., Twamley, J., 2014. Quantum walks with tuneable self-avoidance in one dimension. Sci. Rep. 4, 4791.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Montarras, D., Morgan, J., Collins, C., Relaix, F., Zaffran, S., Cumano, A., Partridge, T., Buckingham, M., 2005. Direct isolation of satellite cells for skeletal muscle regeneration. Science 309, 2064–2067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shover, L., 2010. Trading Options in Turbulent Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wulfhorst, G., Klug, S. (Eds.), 2016. Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research for Practice Application, Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

Mendoza, G., Khero, Z., 2016. Building Pakistan’s Resilience to Flood Disasters in the Indus River Basin, in: Tortajada, C. (Ed.), Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation, Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Singapore, pp. 81–110.

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 China Geology.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Google Is Celebrating The Antikythera Mechanism’s Discovery – But What The Hell Is It? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-is-celebrating-the-antikythera-mechanisms-discovery-but-what-the-hell-is-it/ (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. Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Supersedes AIMD-98-110) (No. AIMD-99-32). 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

McGrew, C., 2008. Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Redemption Is in Burress’s Sizable Reach. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sundqvist, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bengtson and Budd, 2004; Sundqvist, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bengtson and Budd, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Montarras et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Geology
ISSN (print)	2096-5192
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