How to format your references using the Geobiology citation style

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

O’Reilly RC (2006) Biologically based computational models of high-level cognition. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, 91–94.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wong M, Munro S (2014) Membrane trafficking. The specificity of vesicle traffic to the Golgi is encoded in the golgin coiled-coil proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346, 1256898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Linnartz H, Verdes D, Maier JP (2002) Rotationally resolved infrared spectrum of the charge transfer complex [Ar-N2]+. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 1166–1167.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoeflich KP, Luo J, Rubie EA, Tsao MS, Jin O, Woodgett JR (2000) Requirement for glycogen synthase kinase-3beta in cell survival and NF-kappaB activation. Nature 406, 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiss E, Shadomy HJ, Lyon GM III (2011) Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang F, Sugimoto A (eds.) (2014) Image and Video Technology – PSIVT 2013 Workshops: GCCV 2013, GPID 2013, PAESNPR 2013, and QACIVA 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 28-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitani M, Hara T, Hanada H, Sawada H (2012) A Talking Robot and Its Singing Performance by the Mimicry of Human Vocalization. In: Human – Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2: Part 2, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (eds. Hippe ZS, Kulikowski JL, Mroczek T). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–73.

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 Geobiology.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) The Insane Moment A Hippo Tried To Attack A Boat Tour. IFLScience.

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 (2001) USDA Electronic Filing: Progress Made, But Central Leadership and Comprehensive Implementation Plan Needed ( No. GAO-01-324). 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

Rensing RI (2012) Developing a notebook protocol for the high school chemistry classroom (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Walsh MW, Werdigier J (2013) What’s in Your Pension Plan? 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 (O’Reilly, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (O’Reilly, 2006; Wong & Munro, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wong & Munro, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hoeflich et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geobiology
Abbreviation	Geobiology
ISSN (print)	1472-4677
ISSN (online)	1472-4669
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science