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

Stevenson, D.J., 2003, Planetary science: Mission to Earth’s core--a modest proposal: Nature, v. 423, no. 6937, p. 239–240.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nabel, C.S., and Kohli, R.M., 2011, Molecular biology. Demystifying DNA demethylation: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 333, no. 6047, p. 1229–1230.

A journal article with 3 authors

Margulies, L., Winther, G., and Poulsen, H.F., 2001, In situ measurement of grain rotation during deformation of polycrystals: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 291, no. 5512, p. 2392–2394.

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Smith, D.E., Tans, S.J., Smith, S.B., Grimes, S., Anderson, D.L., and Bustamante, C., 2001, The bacteriophage straight phi29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force: Nature, v. 413, no. 6857, p. 748–752.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mauthe, A., and Thomas, P., 2005, Professional Content Management Systems: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Liu, Y., Jiang, T., and Zhang, C., eds., 2005, Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications: First International Workshop, CVBIA 2005, Beijing, China, October 21, 2005. Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, X, 563 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, M., and Rao, R., 2011, Indoor Positioning Data Obstacle Avoidance and Visualization Framework Based on A* Algorithm, in Deng, H., Miao, D., Lei, J., and Wang, F.L. eds., Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: Third International Conference, AICI 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II: Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, p. 26–33.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016, A Star Is On A Collision Course With The Edge Of Our Solar System, IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-star-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-edge-of-our-solar-system/).

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, 1988, ADP Management Controls: Farmers Home Administration Can Improve Reporting of Weaknesses: U.S. Government Printing Office IMTEC-88-38.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crockett, W., 2017,Student Transitions Into the Full-Time Virtual High School SettingDoctoral dissertation: Malibu, CA, Pepperdine 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

Belson, K., and Pilon, M., 2012, Concern Raised Over Painkiller’s Use in Sports: New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stevenson, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Stevenson, 2003; Nabel and Kohli, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nabel and Kohli, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2001)

About the journal

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