How to format your references using the Geochemical Perspectives Letters citation style

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

Giles, J. (2001) Mad cow disease comes to Japan. Nature 413, 240.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kambe, T., Oshima, K. (2014) Dynamically fluctuating electric dipole moments in fullerene-based magnets. Scientific reports 4, 6419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lenton, T.M., Schellnhuber, H.J., Szathmáry, E. (2004) Climbing the co-evolution ladder. Nature 431, 913.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Simon, A.F., Shih, C., Mack, A., Benzer, S. (2003) Steroid control of longevity in Drosophila melanogaster. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, 1407–1410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms (2011) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Stanczak, S. (2008) Fundamentals of Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Theory and Algorithms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vesa, J. (2006) Regulatory Framework and Industry Clockspeed. In: Preissl, B., Müller, J. (eds) Governance of Communication Networks: Connecting Societies and Markets with IT. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 79–90.

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 Geochemical Perspectives Letters.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015) DNA from Feces Reveals that Vampire Bats Thirst for Pork Most. IFLScience. 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 (1990) International Broadcasting: Construction of U.S. Radio Relay Station in Israel. 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

Hambarsoomian, H. (2017) Classification of Placental Chorionic Surface Vasculature Network Features Using Machine Learning Techniques. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, B., Green, J. (2017) Critics at War? Yes. But Agreeing, Too. New York Times, 22 June, page C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Giles, 2001; Kambe and Oshima, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kambe and Oshima, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Simon et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemical Perspectives Letters
ISSN (print)	2410-339X
ISSN (online)	2410-3403
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