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

Prelec D (2004) A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, 462–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang C, Chang ETY (2014) Geophysics. Seafloor secrets revealed. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346, 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang YV, Ni J, Montell C (2013) The molecular basis for attractive salt-taste coding in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, 1334–1338.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cao T, Wei C, Simpson RE, Zhang L, Cryan MJ (2014) Fast tuning of double Fano resonance using a phase-change metamaterial under low power intensity. Scientific reports 4, 4463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cahill TH (2012) Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mena RH, Pardo JC, Rivero V, Uribe Bravo G (eds.) (2015) XI Symposium on Probability and Stochastic Processes: CIMAT, Mexico, November 18-22, 2013. Progress in Probability. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dong W, Dunn B (2009) Vanadium Oxide Aerogels: Enhanced Energy Storage in Nanostructured Materials. In: Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Production and Storage, Nanostructure Science and Technology (ed. Leite ER). Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 185–199.

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

Luntz S (2016) Premenstrual Symptoms Linked To Inflamation. 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 (1985) Implementation of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 ( No. 128369). 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

Baxter VP (2013) Communitarian Leadership Practice Acquisition in Educational Leadership Preparation (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

La GORCE T (2017) He Arrived as Reba McEntire. That Seemed to Work. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prelec, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Prelec, 2004; Hwang & Chang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hwang & Chang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al., 2014)

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