How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Volcanology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Volcanology. 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

Popov VL. Analytic solution for the limiting shape of profiles due to fretting wear. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jan 17;4:3749.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimura S, Yoshioka K. Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jun 11;4:5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos NC, Benz W, Mayor M. Extrasolar planets: constraints for planet formation models. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):251–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Branderhorst MPA, Londero P, Wasylczyk P, Brif C, Kosut RL, Rabitz H, et al. Coherent control of decoherence. Science. 2008 May 2;320(5876):638–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka HJ. Transitions in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Atasu A, editor. Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Giga M-H, Giga Y, Saal J. Compactness Theorems. In: Giga Y, Saal J, editors. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions and Self-Similar Solutions. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2010. p. 181–8.

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 Journal of Applied Volcanology.

Blog post

Hale T. Video Shows Otters Drown And Kill A Monkey At A Zoo. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Substantial Challenges in Developing New Space Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 May. Report No.: GAO-09-705T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith JR. The evolving profile of alternative tobacco use in California [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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

Rothenberg B. Fear, Frustration and Fascination: Sharapova on Serena. New York Times. 2017 Sep 11;B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Popov 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014; Popov 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kimura and Yoshioka 2014)
Three or more authors: (Branderhorst et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Volcanology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Volcanol.
ISSN (online)	2191-5040
Scope