How to format your references using the Geochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geochemistry. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Becker, S., 2014. Rhubarb pie and science. Science 345, 1534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marsan, D., Lengliné, O., 2008. Extending earthquakes’ reach through cascading. Science 319, 1076–1079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, S., Bai, M., Wang, L., 2013. General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging. Sci. Rep. 3, 2023.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Petersen, C.C.H., Brecht, M., Hahn, T.T.G., Sakmann, B., 2004. Synaptic changes in layer 2/3 underlying map plasticity of developing barrel cortex. Science 304, 739–742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro, P.F., 2016. Plastics Product Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gassmann, O., 2016. Exploring the Field of Business Model Innovation: New Theoretical Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ouzzani, M., Bouguettaya, A., 2011. Web Services Query Execution and Optimization, in: Bouguettaya, A. (Ed.), Semantic Web Services for Web Databases. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 57–76.

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 Geochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015. How Do Snakes Climb Trees? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-large-snake-climbs-trees/ (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, 1988. Air Force Contracting: Contracting for Maintenance of Training Aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base (No. NSIAD-88-136BR). 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

Castro Deller, E., 2013. Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers (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

Skurnick, L., Bai, M., Spitznagel, E., Batali, M., Gross, J., Reeves, H., Henig, S., Newton, M., Sittenfeld, C., Kelly, J., Shortz, W., Giudice, T., Itzkoff, D., Hanel, M., Cowen, T., 2012. The One-Page Magazine. New York Times MM9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Becker, 2014; Marsan and Lengliné, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Marsan and Lengliné, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Petersen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemistry
ISSN (print)	1611-5864
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