How to format your references using the Geochronometria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geochronometria. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dolgin E, 2013, Cancer vaccines: Material breach. Nature 504(7480): S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sepúlveda J and Murray C, 2014, The state of global health in 2014. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6202): 1275–1278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zijlstra P, Chon JWM and Gu M, 2009, Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods. Nature 459(7245): 410–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang Y, Duan X, Cui Y, Lauhon LJ, Kim KH and Lieber CM, 2001, Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294(5545): 1313–1317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa F, Gautier C, Labouré E and Revol B, 2013, Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bimbó K (ed), 2016, J. Michael Dunn on Information Based Logics. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Koshita Y, 2015, Effect of Temperature on Fruit Color Development. In: Kanayama Y and Kochetov A (eds) Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants. Springer Japan: Tokyo, 47–58.

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 Geochronometria.

Blog post

Hamilton K, 2017, Don’t Panic: The Northern Lights Won’t Be Turning Off Anytime Soon. IFLScience. 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, 1992, DOT’s Recommendation Response System. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoch VA, 2014, The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL, University of South Florida.

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

Murphy MJO, 2015, Friday File. New York Times, 27 February, page C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin, 2013; Sepúlveda and Murray, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sepúlveda and Murray, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochronometria
Abbreviation	Geochronometria
ISSN (print)	1733-8387
ISSN (online)	1897-1695
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)