How to format your references using the Clays and Clay Minerals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clays and 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

Richmond, C.R. (2000) How neptunium led to the birth of plutonium. Nature, 406, 455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sosnick, T.R. and Hinshaw, J.R. (2011) Biochemistry. How proteins fold. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334, 464–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

McSween, H.Y., Jr, Taylor, G.J., and Wyatt, M.B. (2009) Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324, 736–739.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Moriyama, S., Brestoff, J.R., Flamar, A.-L., Moeller, J.B., Klose, C.S.N., Rankin, L.C., Yudanin, N.A., Monticelli, L.A., Putzel, G.G., Rodewald, H.-R., and Artis, D. (2018) β2-adrenergic receptor-mediated negative regulation of group 2 innate lymphoid cell responses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359, 1056–1061.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hirsch, H.L. (2005) Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Riaño, D., Teije, A.T., Miksch, S., and Peleg, M. (eds.). (2011) Knowledge Representation for Health-Care: ECAI 2010 Workshop KR4HC 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, August 17, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. P. in.: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, X, 153 p. 59 illus., 21 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, X. and Wu, R. (2014) Cross-Border Governance: The Merger of Guangzhou and Foshan. Pp. 83–102 in: Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation (U. Altrock and S. Schoon, editors). Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, 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 Clays and Clay Minerals.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) Beautiful Blue Lakes Appearing In East Antarctica Hint At A Terrible Future. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beautiful-blue-lakes-east-antarctica-hint-terrible-future/> (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. (2005) Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. 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

Diddi, V. (2017) Digitally Controlled Microwave Power Amplifier Design Techniques for Wireless Communications. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Vecsey, G. (2010) U.S. Loss Reveals a Shrinking Talent Gap. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richmond, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Richmond, 2000; Sosnick and Hinshaw, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sosnick and Hinshaw, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Moriyama et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clays and Clay Minerals
Abbreviation	Clays Clay Miner.
ISSN (print)	0009-8604
Scope	Soil Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry and Petrology Water Science and Technology