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

Fray D (2013) Metallurgy: iron production electrified. Nature 497:324–325

A journal article with 2 authors

Sakaguchi S, Powrie F (2007) Emerging challenges in regulatory T cell function and biology. Science 317:627–629

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath C, Ballhaus C, Holzheid A (2004) Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting. Science 305:1951–1953

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ihee H, Lobastov VA, Gomez UM, et al (2001) Direct imaging of transient molecular structures with ultrafast diffraction. Science 291:458–462

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Takezawa K (2005) Introduction to Nonparametric Regression: Takezawa/Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Anjum NA, Chan M-T, Umar S (eds) (2010) Ascorbate-Glutathione Pathway and Stress Tolerance in Plants. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Păun G (2014) Some Open Problems about Catalytic, Numerical, and Spiking Neural P Systems. In: Alhazov A, Cojocaru S, Gheorghe M, et al. (eds) Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–39

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

Andrew E (2014) Action shot of sexual reproduction of 100-million-year-old-flower has been preserved in amber. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/action-shot-sexual-reproduction-100-million-year-old-flower-has-been-preserved/. 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 (1982) The Cost Effectiveness of an Education Assistance Program (GI Bill) as a Recruiting Incentive Is Unknown. 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

Martinez W (2010) “Straight Talk” on preventing HIV program—a grant thesis project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 C (2008) Frugality Can Be Acquired, but It Can’t Be Bought. 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 (Fray 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sakaguchi and Powrie 2007; Fray 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sakaguchi and Powrie 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ihee et al. 2001)

About the journal

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