How to format your references using the GeoResJ citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GeoResJ. 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

[1]

Müller RD. Earth science: plate motion and mantle plumes. Nature 2011;475:40–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hyman AA, Simons K. Cell biology. Beyond oil and water--phase transitions in cells. Science 2012;337:1047–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Friedmann T, Rabin O, Frankel MS. Ethics. Gene doping and sport. Science 2010;327:647–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huh JR, Leung MWL, Huang P, Ryan DA, Krout MR, Malapaka RRV, et al. Digoxin and its derivatives suppress TH17 cell differentiation by antagonizing RORγt activity. Nature 2011;472:486–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sue DW. Overcoming Our Racism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

[1]

Carnegie PJ, King VT, Zawawi I, editors. Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia. vol. 5. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ghasemzadeh H, Guenterberg E, Jafari R. Lightweight Signal Processing for Wearable Body Sensor Networks. In: Bonfiglio A, De Rossi D, editors. Wearable Monitoring Systems, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011, p. 99–122.

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 GeoResJ.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Parkinson’s Therapy Revived After 20 Years. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lin L-M. Transformation in Chinese Theatre Works’ the Legend of White Snake. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

[1]

Gordon M. A Boy’s Fate. New York Times 2016:BR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	GeoResJ
Abbreviation	GeoResJ
ISSN (print)	2214-2428
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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