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

Conley, D.J., 2012, Ecology: save the Baltic Sea: Nature, v. 486, no. 7404, p. 463–464.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacCoss, M., and Baillie, T.A., 2004, Organic chemistry in drug discovery: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 303, no. 5665, p. 1810–1813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, T., Gao, Y., and Wang, Z.D., 2014, Topological quantum phase transitions and edge states in spin-orbital coupled Fermi gases: Scientific reports, v. 4, p. 5218.

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Del Monte-Nieto, G., Ramialison, M., Adam, A.A.S., Wu, B., Aharonov, A., D’Uva, G., Bourke, L.M., Pitulescu, M.E., Chen, H., de la Pompa, J.L., Shou, W., Adams, R.H., Harten, S.K., Tzahor, E., et al., 2018, Control of cardiac jelly dynamics by NOTCH1 and NRG1 defines the building plan for trabeculation: Nature, v. 557, no. 7705, p. 439–445.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, M.R., and Hacker, P.M.S., 2012, History of Cognitive Neuroscience: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wannemacker, S.D., Vandercruysse, S., and Clarebout, G., eds., 2012, Serious Games: The Challenge: ITEC/CIP and T 2011: Joint Conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Technology, Education, and Communication, and the Scientific Network on Critical and Flexible Thinking Ghent, Belgium, October 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, VIII, 91 p. 10 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Jacob, G., Debar, H., and Filiol, E., 2009, Malware Behavioral Detection by Attribute-Automata Using Abstraction from Platform and Language, in Kirda, E., Jha, S., and Balzarotti, D. eds., Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 12th International Symposium, RAID 2009, Saint-Malo, France, September 23-25, 2009. Proceedings: Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, p. 81–100.

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., 2016, Tasmanian Devil Milk May Be A Source Of New Antibiotics, IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tasmanian-devil-milk-may-be-a-source-of-new-antibiotics/).

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, Battlefield Automation: Better Justification and Testing Needed for Common Computer Acquisition: U.S. Government Printing Office IMTEC-88-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen, M.W., 2017,Popular Culture and War in the Vietnam EraDoctoral 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

Cardwell, D., and Schwartz, J., 2017, Exxon’s Accounting of Its Emissions Costs ‘May Be a Sham,’ New York State Says: New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conley, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (MacCoss and Baillie, 2004; Conley, 2012).

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

Two authors: (MacCoss and Baillie, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Del Monte-Nieto et al., 2018)

About the journal

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