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

Triendl, R. 2002. Back to basics. Nature, 420, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodner, S. and Paine, C. 2000. When peer review fails. Nature, 407, 129–130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, J., An, J. and Ting, C.S. 2013. Interaction-induced localization of mobile impurities in ultracold systems. Scientific reports, 3, 3147.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alsos, I.G., Eidesen, P.B., et al. 2007. Frequent long-distance plant colonization in the changing Arctic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316, 1606–1609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L.S., Simões, R. and Gervásio, H. 2014. Design of Steel Structures.

An edited book

Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D. and Dornbos, S.Q. (eds). 2011. Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Topics in Geobiology.

A chapter in an edited book

Leckie, F.A. and Bello, D.J.D. 2009. Torsion Members. In: Leckie, F. A. (ed.) Strength and Stiffness of Engineering Systems. Mechanical Engineering Series, 1–29.

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

Andrew, E. 2014. New Diagnostic Platform Can Detect Over 1,000 Pathogens In Just 6 Hours. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-diagnostic-platform-can-detect-over-1000-pathogens-just-6-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. 2002. Options to Enhance the Long-Term Viability of the Essential Air Service Program. GAO-02-997R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Picchini, A.M. 2010. Neurogenesis in the Adult Hippocampus: Modulation of Stem Cell Fate by Experience. 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

Koblin, J. 2016. Hulu Adds Channels to Streaming Service. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bodner and Paine 2000; Triendl 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bodner and Paine 2000)
Three or more authors: (Alsos et al. 2007)

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