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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bunz, U.H.F. 2005. Chemistry. How are alkynes scrambled? Science (New York, N.Y.), 308, 216–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baconguis, I. and Gouaux, E. 2012. Structural plasticity and dynamic selectivity of acid-sensing ion channel-spider toxin complexes. Nature, 489, 400–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wojtak, R., Hansen, S.H. and Hjorth, J. 2011. Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity. Nature, 477, 567–569.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yip, C.K., Kimbrough, T.G., et al. 2005. Structural characterization of the molecular platform for type III secretion system assembly. Nature, 435, 702–707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliani, M. 2009. The Practical Guide to Wall Street.

An edited book

Ioannides, M., Fink, E., et al. (eds). 2016. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirabayashi, Y. 2011. Collective Recognition and Shared Identity: Factors Behind the Emergence and Mobilization Process in a Referendum Movement1. In: Broadbent, J. and Brockman, V. (eds) East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, 81–97.

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

Luntz, S. 2015. How Plants Can Become Zombies. 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. 2003. Information Technology: Benefits Realized for Selected Health Care Functions. GAO-04-224.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Batistick, S.A. 2015. Reclaiming One’s Gold: Imagining the Inner Child Through the Art of Therapeutic Fairy Tale Writing. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Barron, J. 2016. Le Train Bleu Is Departing Bloomingdale’s. A Rail Buff Sees It Off. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunz 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bunz 2005; Baconguis and Gouaux 2012).

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

Two authors: (Baconguis and Gouaux 2012)
Three or more authors: (Yip et al. 2005)

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