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

Bromm, V. (2012) Astronomy. Embers of the distant past. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338, 1160–1161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meder, D. and Simons, K. (2005) Cell biology. Ras on the roundabout. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307, 1731–1733.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cumings, J., Collins, P.G., and Zettl, A. (2000) Peeling and sharpening multiwall nanotubes. Nature, 406, 586.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Shi, Z., Zhang, Y., Cui, X., Zhuang, S., Wu, B., Dong, X., Zhang, B., and Du, G. (2014) High-temperature continuous-wave laser realized in hollow microcavities. Scientific reports, 4, 7180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin, R. (2012) Reading Victorian Poetry. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Patel, M. (2010) The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology. P. in.: Understanding Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, X, 168 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Tzu, C. and Yu-lan, F. (2016) The Evidence of Virtue Complete. Pp. 35–39 in: Chuang-Tzu: A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang (Y.-L. Fung, editor). China Academic Library, 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 Clays and Clay Minerals.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) What Are The Issues Around The Use Of Human Foetal Tissue? IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-are-issues-around-use-human-foetal-tissue/> (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. (2011) Information Technology: OMB Has Made Improvements to Its Dashboard, but Further Work Is Needed by Agencies and OMB to Ensure Data Accuracy. 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

Ahlert, D. (2015) Application of Graph Theoretic Clustering on Some Biomedical Data Sets. 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. (2005) Roberts Court Hears Its First Case in Federalism Debate. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Meder and Simons, 2005; Bromm, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Meder and Simons, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al., 2014)

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