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

Schmidt B. Astronomy. The link between supernovae and gamma ray bursts. Science. 2005 May 27;308(5726):1265–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eisenstein JP, Macdonald AH. Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems. Nature. 2004 Dec 9;432(7018):691–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagao K, Adachi Y, Yanagida M. Separase-mediated cleavage of cohesin at interphase is required for DNA repair. Nature. 2004 Aug 26;430(7003):1044–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Karoly DJ, Braganza K, Stott PA, Arblaster JM, Meehl GA, Broccoli AJ, et al. Detection of a human influence on North American climate. Science. 2003 Nov 14;302(5648):1200–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver H, Cawson P, Gorin S, Walker S. Safeguarding Children. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; 2009.

An edited book

Cain MG, editor. Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Grotenhuis BA, van Lanschot JJB, Dinjens WNM, Wijnhoven BPL. The Pathogenesis of Barrett’s Metaplasia and the Progression to Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. In: Schneider PM, editor. Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 39–63.

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

Taub B. New Nazca Geoglyph Of Strange, Tongue-Poking Creature Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-geoglyph-strange-tongue-poking-creature-discovered-among-peru-s-nazca-lines/

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. Protest of NASA Contract Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Dec. Report No.: B-177224.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dalbey SB. Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Crow K. My Son the Bureaucrat, My Dad the Gadfly. New York Times. 2002 Jul 7;143.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein and Macdonald 2004; Schmidt 2005).

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

Two authors: (Eisenstein and Macdonald 2004)
Three or more authors: (Karoly et al. 2003)

About the journal

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