How to format your references using the Clay Minerals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clay Minerals. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dunn, B. (2012) Cancer: Solving an age-old problem. Nature, 483, S2-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burgisser, A. & Bergantz, G.W. (2011) A rapid mechanism to remobilize and homogenize highly crystalline magma bodies. Nature, 471, 212–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bierhaus, E.B., Chapman, C.R. & Merline, W.J. (2005) Secondary craters on Europa and implications for cratered surfaces. Nature, 437, 1125–1127.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Piao, J., Tsuji, K., Ochi, H., Iwata, M., Koga, D., Okawa, A., Morita, S., Takeda, S. & Asou, Y. (2013) Sirt6 regulates postnatal growth plate differentiation and proliferation via Ihh signaling. Scientific reports, 3, 3022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beiser, L. (2005) Unified Optical Scanning Technology. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wang, L. & Jin, Y. (eds.). (2005) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery: Second International Conference, FSKD 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part I. P. in.: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XLI, 1334 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Starke-Meyerring, D. (2011) The Paradox of Writing in Doctoral Education: Student Experiences. Pp. 75–95 in: Doctoral Education: Research-Based Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors and Administrators (L. McAlpine & C. Amundsen, editors). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Clay Minerals.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) How Does The Immune System Learn? IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-does-immune-system-learn/> (30 October 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. (1979) A Single Federal Authority Is Needed for Establishing or Constructing Rehabilitation Facilities. 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

Tse, J. (2009) An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

de la MERCED, M.J. (2017) Buffett Bails Out a Troubled Canadian Mortgage Lender. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dunn, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Burgisser & Bergantz, 2011; Dunn, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Burgisser & Bergantz, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Piao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clay Minerals
Abbreviation	Clay Miner.
ISSN (print)	0009-8558
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology