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

O’Malley BW, 2006, Molecular biology. Little molecules with big goals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5794): 1749–1750.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kueh HY and Mitchison TJ, 2009, Structural plasticity in actin and tubulin polymer dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325(5943): 960–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gibbs MJ, Armstrong JS and Gibbs AJ, 2001, Recombination in the hemagglutinin gene of the 1918 “Spanish flu.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5536): 1842–1845.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Evershed RP, Berstan R, Grew F, Copley MS, Charmant AJH, Barham E, Mottram HR and Brown G, 2004, Archaeology: formulation of a Roman cosmetic. Nature 432(7013): 35–36.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xing B, Vecitis CD and Senesi N, 2016, Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bolay J-C, Hostettler S and Hazboun E (eds), 2014, Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan R and Xing G, 2014, Spatiotemporal Coverage in Fusion-Based Sensor Networks. In: Ammari HM (ed) The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 2: Advanced Topics and Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 117–165.

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

Taub B, 2016, Beer Helps Console Snails Before Being Executed For Science. 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, 1983, Contracting for Computer Teleprocessing Services Can Be Improved. 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

Rangwala R, 2005, The Role of the PDZ Protein, Erbin, in Schwann Cells. Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH, University of Cincinnati.

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

Olmsted SA, 1936, DEPUTY MAYOR IDEA NOT NEW; Tammany Objection to the Charter Plan Regarded as Baseless. New York Times, 2 November, page BOOKS20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Malley, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kueh and Mitchison, 2009; O’Malley, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kueh and Mitchison, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Evershed et al., 2004)

About the journal

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