How to format your references using the Gold Bulletin citation style

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

Austin J (2007) Science careers. Getting on the grid: bringing remote, intermittent energy sources into line. Science 315:870

A journal article with 2 authors

Gandhi CS, Rees DC (2008) Biochemistry. Opening the molecular floodgates. Science 321:1166–1167

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn CH, Rabe KM, Triscone J-M (2004) Ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: local polarization in oxide thin films and heterostructures. Science 303:488–491

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gebo DL, Dagosto M, Beard KC, et al (2000) The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates. Nature 404:276–278

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser G (2008) Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Dou R (2013) Proceedings of 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Selinger P (2011) A Survey of Graphical Languages for Monoidal Categories. In: Coecke B (ed) New Structures for Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 289–355

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 Gold Bulletin.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) White House set to Lift Restrictions on Marijuana Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/white-house-set-lift-restrictions-marijuana-research/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2004) DOD Business Systems Modernization: Billions Continue to Be Invested with Inadequate Management Oversight and Accountability. 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

White J (2014) Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sisario B (2016) Pentatonix Is No. 1; Michael’s Streams Soar. New York Times C4

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	Gold Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2364-821X
ISSN (online)	2190-7579
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry General Materials Science