How to format your references using the Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 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

Gottfried, K. (2000). Sowing nuclear misconceptions. Nature, 403(6766), 131–133.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff, L., & Lecuit, T. (2011). Developmental biology. Gradient scaling and growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6021), 1141–1142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambertucci, S. A., Shepard, E. L. C., & Wilson, R. P. (2015). Ecology. Human-wildlife conflicts in a crowded airspace. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6234), 502–504.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Egolf, D. A., Melnikov, I. V., IV, Pesch, W., & Ecke, R. E. (2000). Mechanisms of extensive spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection. Nature, 404(6779), 733–736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Atherton, J., Gil, F., & Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2008). Incidents That Define Process Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pandi-Perumal, S. R., Cardinali, D. P., & Chrousos, G. P. (Eds.). (2007). Neuroimmunology of Sleep. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Berardo, J. C. M., & Becker, B. B. (2016). Brazil. In B. Kilpatrick, P. Kobel, & P. Këllezi (Eds.), Compatibility of Transactional Resolutions of Antitrust Proceedings with Due Process and Fundamental Rights & Online Exhaustion of IP Rights (pp. 135–154). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, Geophysics, Geosystems.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 5). Too Many Tabs – Why Some People Can Multitask Online And Others Can’t. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/too-many-tabs-why-some-people-can-multitask-online-and-others-cant/

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. (1998). Surface Transportation: Issues Associated With Pipeline Regulation by the Surface Transportation Board (No. T-RCED-98-127). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Chahine, J. (2013). Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically (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

Rojas, R., & Mueller, B. (2015, September 16). Defiant Pledge Fought Back in Fatal Hazing, Report Says. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gottfried, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gottfried, 2000; Le Goff & Lecuit, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Le Goff & Lecuit, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Egolf et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Abbreviation	Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.
ISSN (online)	1525-2027
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics