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

Hallett, M. 2000. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the human brain. Nature, 406, 147–150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, P.A. and Hoffman, P.F. 2005. Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature, 433, 123–127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meier, P., Finch, A. and Evan, G. 2000. Apoptosis in development. Nature, 407, 796–801.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Muchnik, L., Pei, S., Parra, L.C., Reis, S.D.S., Andrade, J.S., Jr, Havlin, S. and Makse, H.A. 2013. Origins of power-law degree distribution in the heterogeneity of human activity in social networks. Scientific reports, 3, 1783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, H. 2015. Food Industry Innovation School, The.

An edited book

Cagnoni, S., Mirolli, M. and Villani, M. (eds). 2014. Evolution, Complexity and Artificial Life.

A chapter in an edited book

Zivot, E. 2009. Practical Issues in the Analysis of Univariate GARCH Models. In: Mikosch, T., Kreiß, J.-P., Davis, R. A. and Andersen, T. G. (eds) Handbook of Financial Time Series. 113–155.

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

Hale, T. 2016. India Has Planted Nearly 50 Million Trees In 24 Hours. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/environment/india-has-planted-nearly-50-million-trees-in-24-hours/.

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. 2005. Mass Transit: Information on the Federal Role in Funding the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. GAO-05-358T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bao, J. 2010. Design Enhancements in Repetitive and Interative Learning Control. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Brantley, B. 2016. Returning Home, and All’s Not Well. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hallett 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hallett 2000; Allen and Hoffman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Allen and Hoffman 2005)
Three or more authors: (Muchnik et al. 2013)

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