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

Parham, P. (2004) Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 786–787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peel, M.C. & McMahon, T.A. (2006) Continental runoff: a quality-controlled global runoff data set. Nature, 444, E14; discussion E14-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keizer, K., Lindenberg, S. & Steg, L. (2008) The spreading of disorder. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322, 1681–1685.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Polyansky, O.L., Császár, A.G., Shirin, S.V., Zobov, N.F., Barletta, P., Tennyson, J., Schwenke, D.W. & Knowles, P.J. (2003) High-accuracy ab initio rotation-vibration transitions for water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299, 539–542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, J.C. & Naeim, F. (2012) Basic Structural Dynamics. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Caffrey, M. (2010) Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table. P. in.: Apress, Berkeley, CA, 592 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Köhler, M., Moldt, D., Rölke, H. & Valk, R. (2005) Linking Micro and Macro Description of Scalable Social Systems Using Reference Nets. Pp. 51–67 in: Socionics: Scalability of Complex Social Systems (K. Fischer, M. Florian & T. Malsch, editors). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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) Waste Disposal In US Landfills Underestimated By 115%. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/waste-disposal-us-landfills-underestimated-115/> (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. (2004) Medicaid Managed Care: Access and Quality Requirements Specific to Low-Income and Other Special Needs Enrollees. 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

Harvey, T. (2014) The Box. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008) Justices Uphold Lethal Injection In Kentucky Case. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parham, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Parham, 2004; Peel & McMahon, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Peel & McMahon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Polyansky et al., 2003)

About the journal

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