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

Heimsath, A.M. (2014) Geochemistry. Limits of soil production? Science (New York, N.Y.) 343, 617–618.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kereszt, A., Kondorosi, E. (2011) Plant science. Unlocking the door to invasion. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331, 865–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, E., Metlitski, M.A., Sachdev, S. (2012) Sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo of the onset of antiferromagnetism in metals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338, 1606–1609.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Li, K., Jiang, T., Yu, B., Wang, L., Gao, C., Ma, C., Xu, P., Ma, Y. (2013) Escherichia coli transcription termination factor NusA: heat-induced oligomerization and chaperone activity. Scientific reports 3, 2347.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett, K. (2016) The Experience of History. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hamadi, Y., Schoenauer, M. (eds) (2012) Learning and Intelligent Optimization: 6th International Conference, LION 6, Paris, France, January 16-20, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Márk, G.I., Vancsó, P., Biró, L.P., Kvashnin, D.G., Chernozatonskii, L.A., Chaves, A., Rakhimov, K.Y., Lambin, P. (2016) Wave Packet Dynamical Calculations for Carbon Nanostructures. In: Maffucci, A., Maksimenko, S.A. (eds) Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 89–102.

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

Luntz, S. (2015) Eclipsing Binary Could Be A Supernova Model. 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 (1974) Inquiry About the Research Grant To Develop a Portable Computer To Record Traffic Information for Verifying the Accuracy of Charges for Telecommunications Service. 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

Bai, S. (2008) Identification and Characterization of Senescence-Associated Proteins in Petunia Corollas. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH, Ohio State University.

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

Shpigel, B. (2017) Reviving World Cup Hopes Out of Thin Air. New York Times, 12 June, page D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heimsath, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Heimsath, 2014; Kereszt and Kondorosi, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kereszt and Kondorosi, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

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