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

Solow RM (2010) Retrospective. Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009). Science 327:282

A journal article with 2 authors

Emini EA, Koff WC (2004) AIDS/HIV. Developing an AIDS vaccine: need, uncertainty, hope. Science 304:1913–1914

A journal article with 3 authors

Jalili R, Razal JM, Wallace GG (2013) Wet-spinning of PEDOT:PSS/functionalized-SWNTs composite: a facile route toward production of strong and highly conducting multifunctional fibers. Sci Rep 3:3438

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu K, Victora GD, Schwickert TA, et al (2009) In vivo analysis of dendritic cell development and homeostasis. Science 324:392–397

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossiter A (2008) Professional Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Falcocchio JC (2015) Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bittsánszky A, Gullner G, Gyulai G, Komives T (2011) A Case Study: Uptake and Accumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Cucurbitaceae Species. In: Schröder P, Collins CD (eds) Organic Xenobiotics and Plants: From Mode of Action to Ecophysiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 77–85

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

Andrews R (2017) The Dino-Killing Asteroid Picked The Perfect Spot To Slam Into The Planet. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dinokilling-asteroid-picked-perfect-spot-slam-planet/. 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 (2011) Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Needs Enhanced Oversight and Performance Measures. 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

Park A (2009) Borderland beyond: Korean migrants and the creation of a modern state boundary between Korea and Russia, 1860-1937. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Burghardt LF (2006) An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 14WC5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solow 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Emini and Koff 2004; Solow 2010).

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

Two authors: (Emini and Koff 2004)
Three or more authors: (Liu 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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