How to format your references using the Geobios citation style

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

Check, E., 2002. National academies slam Bush proposal for data security. Nature 419, 769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weatherhead, E.C., Andersen, S.B., 2006. The search for signs of recovery of the ozone layer. Nature 441, 39–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Mei, Y., Hicks, D., 2014. Science communication. Comment on “Quantifying long-term scientific impact.” Science 345, 149.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Turner, R.E., Baustian, J.J., Swenson, E.M., Spicer, J.S., 2006. Wetland sedimentation from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Science 314, 449–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper, N., Forrest, K., Cramp, P., 2008. Essential Guide to Generic Skills. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kobayashi, T., Schmid, W., Yang, J.-H. (Eds.), 2008. Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms, Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Balakrishnan, N., Cramer, E., 2014. Progressive Hybrid Censoring: Distributions and Properties, in: Cramer, E. (Ed.), The Art of Progressive Censoring: Applications to Reliability and Quality. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 125–142.

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 Geobios.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Italy Calls In Its Army To Help Grow Medical Marijuana [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/italy-calls-in-army-help-grow-medical-marijuana/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Aviation and the Environment: Impact of Aviation Noise on Communities Presents Challenges for Airport Operations and Future Growth of the National Airspace System (No. GAO-08-216T). 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

Hylton, J.K., 2016. Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Roosevelt District on Mend With Acting Schools Chief. New York Times LI13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2002; Weatherhead and Andersen, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Weatherhead and Andersen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Turner et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geobios
ISSN (print)	0016-6995
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Stratigraphy