How to format your references using the Economic Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Economic Geology. 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

McBain, C.J., 2012, Neuroscience. Decoding the neuronal Tower of Babel: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 338, no. 6106, p. 482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, Z.-G., and Zhang, C.-T., 2013, A proposal for a novel impact factor as an alternative to the JCR impact factor: Scientific reports, v. 3, p. 3410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta, A.K., Anderson, D.M., and Overpeck, J.T., 2003, Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean: Nature, v. 421, no. 6921, p. 354–357.

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Pérez-Miles, F., Panzera, A., Ortiz-Villatoro, D., and Perdomo, C., 2009, Silk production from tarantula feet questioned: Nature, v. 461, no. 7267, p. E9; discussion E9-10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P.I., 2005, Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus®: Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sun, X.-H., Qu, W., Stojmenovic, I., Zhou, W., Li, Z., Guo, H., Min, G., Yang, T., Wu, Y., and Liu, L., eds., 2014, Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part II: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham, Springer International Publishing, XXIV, 689 p. 331 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Erdemir, U., Yildiz, E., and Yucel, T., 2016, Esthetic Parameters/Smile Design, in Erdemir, U. and Yildiz, E. eds., Esthetic and Functional Management of Diastema: A Multidisciplinary Approach: Cham, Springer International Publishing, p. 53–64.

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 Economic Geology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017, Bees With Mad Ball Skills Taught To Score “Goals,” IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bees-with-mad-ball-skills-taught-to-score-goals/).

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, 2014, Fiscal Year 2014 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-15-152R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gunther, A., 2014,The Effects of Writing Task Choice on Behavioral and Academic Outcomes of Students with ADHDDoctoral dissertation: Edwardsville, IL, Southern Illinois University.

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

Kelly, T.W., 1975, Encounter: When Fantasy Becomes Fact: New York Times, p. Travel and Resorts373.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McBain, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (McBain, 2012; Yang and Zhang, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Zhang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pérez-Miles et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Economic Geology
ISSN (print)	0361-0128
ISSN (online)	1554-0774
Scope