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

Pockley, P. (2000). Australian jailed for removal of fossilized footprints. Nature, 404(6773), 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoshida, N., & Toyoda, S. (2000). Constraining the atmospheric N2O budget from intramolecular site preference in N2O isotopomers. Nature, 405(6784), 330–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meek, S. A., Conrad, H., & Meijer, G. (2009). Trapping molecules on a chip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5935), 1699–1702.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jung, Y. K., Lee, T., Shin, E., & Kim, B.-S. (2013). Highly tunable aptasensing microarrays with graphene oxide multilayers. Scientific Reports, 3, 3367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhaskar, K., & Varadan Retd., T. K. (2014). Plates. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Oppy, G., & Trakakis, N. N. (Eds.). (2014). History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, C. C. (2013). Motivational Interviewing and Client-Centered Therapy. In J. H. D. Cornelius-White, R. Motschnig-Pitrik, & M. Lux (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Applications of the Person-Centered Approach (pp. 43–47). New York, NY: Springer.

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, E. (2015, October 15). Global Warming Is Bringing Spring Earlier To The U.S. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/global-warming-bringing-earlier-springs-us/

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. (1995). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Maneuver System Schedule Includes Unnecessary Risk (No. NSIAD-95-161). 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

Carman, S. B. (2013). Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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. (2016, October 27). Edmonton’s Abuzz? Think Prodigy. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley, 2000; Yoshida & Toyoda, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Yoshida & Toyoda, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Jung et al., 2013)

About the journal

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