How to format your references using the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 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

Helander, M.G., 2012. Applied physics. Solution-processible electrodes. Science 336, 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forrest, W.F., Cavet, G., 2007. Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers.” Science 317, 1500; author reply 1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida, H., Pigg, K.B., Rigby, J.F., 2003. Palaeobotany: Swimming sperm in an extinct Gondwanan plant. Nature 422, 396–397.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gordon, L., Abu-Farsakh, H., Janotti, A., Van de Walle, C.G., 2014. Hydrogen bonds in Al2O3 as dissipative two-level systems in superconducting qubits. Sci. Rep. 4, 7590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon, A., Itmi, M., 2016. New Autonomous Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Trescot, A.M. (Ed.), 2016. Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hatzfeld, C., Kern, T.A., 2014. Development of Haptic Systems, in: Hatzfeld, C., Kern, T.A. (Eds.), Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner’s Guide, Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems. Springer, London, pp. 125–141.

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 Asian Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Revolutionary New Spacesuit Has First Trial [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1971. Close Air Support: Principal Issues and Aircraft Choices (No. B-173850). 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

Reig, M.A., 2008. Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Path of Saudi Arabian Trailblazer Runs Through the United States. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Helander, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Forrest and Cavet, 2007; Helander, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Forrest and Cavet, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Gordon et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Asian Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)	1367-9120
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geology