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

Alexander RM, 2007, Biophysics. Antennae as gyroscopes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5813): 771–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margueron R and Reinberg D, 2011, The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life. Nature 469(7330): 343–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zehn D, Lee SY and Bevan MJ, 2009, Complete but curtailed T-cell response to very low-affinity antigen. Nature 458(7235): 211–214.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ling L, Jiafeng J, Jiangang L, Minchong S, Xin H, Hanliang S and Yuanhua D, 2014, Effects of cold plasma treatment on seed germination and seedling growth of soybean. Scientific reports 4: 5859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noar J, 2014, Interceptive Orthodontics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford, UK.

An edited book

El Oualkadi A, Choubani F and El Moussati A (eds), 2016, Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015: MedCT 2015 Volume 2. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zentes J, Morschett D and Schramm-Klein H, 2012, Online Retailing and Multichannel Retailing. In: Morschett D and Schramm-Klein H (eds) Strategic Retail Management: Text and International Cases. Gabler Verlag: Wiesbaden, 71–91.

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

Andrews R, 2016, Germany To Reduce Carbon Emissions By 95 Percent by 2050. 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, 2011, Aviation Security: TSA Is Taking Steps to Validate the Science Underlying Its Passenger Behavior Detection Program, but Efforts May Not Be Comprehensive. 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

Garapati SH, 2013, Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Assembly Procedures of Steel Fulcra of Bascule Bridges. 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

Pilon M, 2012, Games Are Over; Battle Goes On. New York Times, 26 August, page SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alexander, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alexander, 2007; Margueron and Reinberg, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Margueron and Reinberg, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ling et al., 2014)

About the journal

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