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

Herschman, H.R. (2003) Molecular imaging: looking at problems, seeing solutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, 605–608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ganopolski, A. and Rahmstorf, S. (2001) Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model. Nature, 409, 153–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai, Y.-T., Cascio, D., and Yeates, T.O. (2012) Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336, 1129.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Attwood, B.K., Bourgognon, J.-M., Patel, S., Mucha, M., Schiavon, E., Skrzypiec, A.E., Young, K.W., Shiosaka, S., Korostynski, M., Piechota, M., Przewlocki, R., and Pawlak, R. (2011) Neuropsin cleaves EphB2 in the amygdala to control anxiety. Nature, 473, 372–375.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golio, M. (2006) Engineering Your Retirement. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Antoniou, G., Grobelnik, M., Simperl, E., Parsia, B., Plexousakis, D., Leenheer, P.D., and Pan, J. (eds.). (2011) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29-June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. P. in.: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXIV, 520 p. 103 illus., 65 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu, J. and Yang-Li, X. (2008) A Fast Parallel Association Rules Mining Algorithm Based on FP-Forest. Pp. 40–49 in: Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008: 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, Beijing, China, September 24-28, 2008, Proceedings, Part II (F. Sun, J. Zhang, Y. Tan, J. Cao, and W. Yu, 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 Clays and Clay Minerals.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015) Total Solar Eclipse To Darken Skies Above Europe March 20th. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/space/europes-march-solar-eclipse/> (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. (1987) FAA’s Air Traffic Controller Staffing Standards. 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

Bozorgchami, B. (2017) Time and Bandwidth Efficiency in Transmission of Telemedicine and In-Hospital Patient Data. 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

Barnes, B. (2012) In the Footsteps of Marvel. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herschman, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf, 2001; Herschman, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ganopolski and Rahmstorf, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Attwood et al., 2011)

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