How to format your references using the Global Biogeochemical Cycles citation style

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

Robinson, P. J. (2007). Neuroscience. How to fill a synapse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5824), 551–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berger, A., & Loutre, M. F. (2002). Climate. An exceptionally long interglacial ahead? Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5585), 1287–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanagisawa, S., Yoo, S.-D., & Sheen, J. (2003). Differential regulation of EIN3 stability by glucose and ethylene signalling in plants. Nature, 425(6957), 521–525.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sanchez, S. E., Petrillo, E., Beckwith, E. J., Zhang, X., Rugnone, M. L., Hernando, C. E., et al. (2010). A methyl transferase links the circadian clock to the regulation of alternative splicing. Nature, 468(7320), 112–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shand, M. A. (2006). The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Norris, S. P. (Ed.). (2012). Reading for Evidence and Interpreting Visualizations in Mathematics and Science Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Simari, G. I., & Parsons, S. D. (2011). A Theoretical Comparison of Models. In S. D. Parsons (Ed.), Markov Decision Processes and the Belief-Desire-Intention Model: Bridging the Gap for Autonomous Agents (pp. 27–48). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 23). An AI Was Trained To Create New Colors. It Was Wonderfully Terrible. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/an-ai-was-trained-to-create-new-colors-it-was-wonderfully-terrible/

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. (2006). Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Made Progress in Managing a Federal Security Workforce and Ensuring Security at U.S. Airports, but Challenges Remain (No. GAO-06-597T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Diorio, C. A. (2010). The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Ortved, J. (2017, September 1). Signs of Vitality In the Hamptons. New York Times, p. ST10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Berger & Loutre, 2002; Robinson, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Berger & Loutre, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sanchez et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Abbreviation	Global Biogeochem. Cycles
ISSN (print)	0886-6236
ISSN (online)	1944-9224
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Global and Planetary Change