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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Atwood, H.L., 2006. Neuroscience. Gatekeeper at the synapse. Science 312, 1008–1009.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hambourger, M., Moore, T.A., 2009. Chemistry. Nailing down nickel for electrocatalysis. Science 326, 1355–1356.
A journal article with 3 authors
Yoo, H.I., Barsoum, M.W., El-Raghy, T., 2000. Ti3SiC2 has negligible thermopower. Nature 407, 581–582.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Guitton, A., Joulain, A., Thilly, L., Tromas, C., 2014. Evidence of dislocation cross-slip in MAX phase deformed at high temperature. Sci. Rep. 4, 6358.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Maksoud, M.A., 2017. Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Muthu, S.S., Gardetti, M.A. (Eds.), 2016. Green Fashion: Volume 1, Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore.
A chapter in an edited book
Roero, C.S., 2015. Relationships Between History of Mathematics and History of Art, in: Ostwald, M.J. (Ed.), Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 59–66.

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., 2016. Explanation For How BCG Vaccine Protects Against Other Diseases [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/explanation-for-how-bcg-vaccine-protects-against-other-diseases/ (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, 1994. Women’s Educational Equity Act: A Review of Program Goals and Strategies Needed (No. PEMD-95-6). 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
Garcia, D.M., 2010. Cutting a thorn: The cleansing function of female genital cutting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Vecsey, G., 2015. A New York Icon Who Shone Just Outside the Bright Lights. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atwood, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Atwood, 2006; Hambourger and Moore, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Hambourger and Moore, 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Guitton et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Asian Earth Sciences
AbbreviationJ. Asian Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)1367-9120
ScopeEarth-Surface Processes
Geology

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