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

Kerr RA (2000) PLANETARY SCIENCE: Beating Up on a Young Earth, and Possibly Life. Science 290:1677

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine M, Tjian R (2003) Transcription regulation and animal diversity. Nature 424:147–151

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson ZL, Cheong C-G, Lee S-Y (2012) Crystal structure of a concentrative nucleoside transporter from Vibrio cholerae at 2.4 Å. Nature 483:489–493

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Senju A, Southgate V, White S, Frith U (2009) Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome. Science 325:883–885

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearce R, Barnes S (2006) Raising Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Majumdar S (2011) Emerging Challenges and Trends in TVET in the Asia-Pacific Region. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Moore GJ, Puglia FJ, Gulbinska MK (2014) Lithium-ion Cells for High-End Applications. In: Gulbinska MK (ed) Lithium-ion Battery Materials and Engineering: Current Topics and Problems from the Manufacturing Perspective. Springer, London, pp 89–113

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

Andrew E (2015) Promising Rabies Treatment Cures Mice After Symptoms Appear. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-rabies-treatment-cures-mice-after-symptoms-appear/. 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 (2000) Maritime Industry: As U.S. Single-Hull Oil Vessels Are Eliminated, Few Double-Hull Vessels May Replace Them. 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

Hammamy R (2010) “Promoting responsible action in medical emergencies”: Determining the impact of a new University of Maryland alcohol protocol. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Shpigel B (2017) Three Goals Early in Third Period Help Penguins Tighten Their Grip. New York Times B15

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

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