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

Havlin, S., 2009. Epidemiology. Phone infections. Science 324, 1023–1024.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff, L., Lecuit, T., 2011. Developmental biology. Gradient scaling and growth. Science 331, 1141–1142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Westfall, P.J., Ballon, D.R., Thorner, J., 2004. When the stress of your environment makes you go HOG wild. Science 306, 1511–1512.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bose, S., Singh, R., Hanewich-Hollatz, M., Shen, C., Lee, C.-H., Dorfman, D.M., Karp, J.M., Karnik, R., 2013. Affinity flow fractionation of cells via transient interactions with asymmetric molecular patterns. Sci. Rep. 3, 2329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon, A., Itmi, M., 2016. New Autonomous Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kraus, R., 2011. Phraseological Dictionary English - German: General Vocabulary in Technical and Scientific Texts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Church, J.M., 2015. Norms, Rules and Sustainable Planning: Who Said What About Norms, in: Mancebo, F., Sachs, I. (Eds.), Transitions to Sustainability. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–62.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Current Extinction Rate 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/current-extinction-rate-10-times-worse-previously-thought/ (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, 2006. Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Government in Early Stages of Transition and Key Challenges Remain (No. GAO-06-675). 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

Butler-Roberts, J., 2017. Fashioning distinction: construction of identity through dress and photography in nineteenth-century Paris (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Urbina, I., 2015. Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Havlin, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Havlin, 2009; Le Goff and Lecuit, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Le Goff and Lecuit, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bose et al., 2013)

About the journal

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