How to format your references using the Gondwana Research citation style

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

Gammon, K., 2014. Drug discovery: Leaving no stone unturned. Nature 509, S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kulmala, M., Petäjä, T., 2011. Geochemistry. Soil nitrites influence atmospheric chemistry. Science 333, 1586–1587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrie, R.J., Koo, H., Yamada, K.M., 2014. Generation of compartmentalized pressure by a nuclear piston governs cell motility in a 3D matrix. Science 345, 1062–1065.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cooper, V.R., Seo, S.S.A., Lee, S., Kim, J.S., Choi, W.S., Okamoto, S., Lee, H.N., 2014. Transparent conducting oxides: a δ-doped superlattice approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 6021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, A., 2009. Getting Started in Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Heidrich, J., Oivo, M., Jedlitschka, A., Baldassarre, M.T. (Eds.), 2013. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 14th International Conference, PROFES 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Durand-Guerrier, V., Kazima, M., Libbrecht, P., Ngansop, J.N., Salekhova, L., Tuktamyshov, N., Winsløw, C., 2016. Challenges and Opportunities for Second Language Learners in Undergraduate Mathematics, in: Barwell, R., Clarkson, P., Halai, A., Kazima, M., Moschkovich, J., Planas, N., Setati-Phakeng, M., Valero, P., Villavicencio Ubillús, M. (Eds.), Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: The 21st ICMI Study, New ICMI Study Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 85–101.

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 Gondwana Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Sound Waves Can Now Be Used To Hack Into Smartphones [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sound-waves-used-hack-smartphones/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Information Technology Reform: Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned (No. GAO-12-756). 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

Jones, D.M., 2010. Educational paradigm shift: Emergence of the virtual classroom (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wines, M., 2017. Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unfazed. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gammon, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gammon, 2014; Kulmala and Petäjä, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kulmala and Petäjä, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cooper et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gondwana Research
Abbreviation	Gondwana Res.
ISSN (print)	1342-937X
Scope	Geology