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

Lynch M (2002) Genomics. Gene duplication and evolution. Science 297:945–947

A journal article with 2 authors

Giles J, Knight J (2003) Dolly’s death leaves researchers woolly on clone ageing issue. Nature 421:776

A journal article with 3 authors

Mosey NJ, Müser MH, Woo TK (2005) Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science 307:1612–1615

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Piao S, Fang J, Ciais P, et al (2009) The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 458:1009–1013

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz CB, Ewing J, Hecht J (2012) Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wang X, Chen J, Quinn P (eds) (2012) Reprogramming Microbial Metabolic Pathways. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ursani AA, Kpalma K, Ronsin J, et al (2009) Improved Texture Description with Features Based on Fourier Transform. In: Hussain DMA, Rajput AQK, Chowdhry BS, Gee Q (eds) Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems: International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2008 Jamshoro, Pakistan, April 11-12, 2008 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–28

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

Taub B (2016) Scientists Are Growing Human Organs Inside Pigs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-are-growing-human-organs-inside-pigs/. 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 (1990) Airline Competition: DOT and Justice Oversight of Eastern Air Lines’ Bankruptcy. 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

Colker JO (2008) A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Poniewozik J (2017) Big Ideas and Short-Term Stays. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lynch 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lynch 2002; Giles and Knight 2003).

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

Two authors: (Giles and Knight 2003)
Three or more authors: (Piao et al. 2009)

About the journal

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