How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Geochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Geochemistry. 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

McGrayne SB (2002) Portraits of science. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead! Science 296:851–852

A journal article with 2 authors

Xavier RJ, Podolsky DK (2007) Unravelling the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 448:427–434

A journal article with 3 authors

Piras V, Tomita M, Selvarajoo K (2014) Transcriptome-wide variability in single embryonic development cells. Sci Rep 4:7137

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Knight TM, McCoy MW, Chase JM, et al (2005) Trophic cascades across ecosystems. Nature 437:880–883

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuus M (2013) Geopolitics and Expertise. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Králová-Hromadová I (2016) The Giant Liver Fluke, Fascioloides magna: Past, Present and Future Research, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rogers ES, MacDonald-Wilson KL (2011) Vocational Capacity among Individuals with Mental Health Disabilities. In: Schultz IZ, Rogers ES (eds) Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health. Springer, New York, NY, pp 73–89

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 Chinese Journal of Geochemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) New Test Shows Event Horizons Are Still More Likely Than Any Alternatives. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-test-shows-event-horizons-are-still-more-likely-than-any-alternatives/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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). 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

Ellerbrook SL (2009) Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the gender sub-groups. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Gustines GG (2017) Weak Sales Doom Black Panther Spinoff. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGrayne 2002).
This sentence cites two references (McGrayne 2002; Xavier and Podolsky 2007).

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

Two authors: (Xavier and Podolsky 2007)
Three or more authors: (Knight et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Geochemistry
ISSN (print)	1000-9426
ISSN (online)	1993-0364
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