How to format your references using the Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis. 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

Knight, J. 2003. Tomorrow’s world. Nature, 426, 709–711.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez, P. and Treacy, M.M.J. 2013. Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature, 503, E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Steinacher, M., Joos, F. and Stocker, T.F. 2013. Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets. Nature, 499, 197–201.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dolling, G., Enkrich, C., Wegener, M., Soukoulis, C.M. and Linden, S. 2006. Simultaneous negative phase and group velocity of light in a metamaterial. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312, 892–894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruiz, J.-L. 2017. Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry.

An edited book

Mathis, K. (ed.). 2012. Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations. Law and Philosophy Library.

A chapter in an edited book

Dubois, D. 2010. Degrees of Truth, Ill-Known Sets and Contradiction. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Magdalena, L., Ojeda-Aciego, M., Verdegay, J.-L. and Yager, R. R. (eds) Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 65–83.

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: Exploration, Environment, Analysis.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014. Sandstorm Uncovers New Nazca Lines. 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. 1998. Statistical Agencies: Proposed Consolidation and Data Sharing Legislation. T-GGD-98-91.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scuderi, N.F. 2010. Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership in Church Organizations. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Saslow, L. 2007. Bill Would Make Offenders Share Probation Costs. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2003; Rez and Treacy 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rez and Treacy 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dolling et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis
Abbreviation	Geochem. Explor. Environ. Analy.
ISSN (print)	1467-7873
ISSN (online)	2041-4943
Scope	General Chemistry General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geochemistry and Petrology General Environmental Science