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

Kotov, N.A., 2010. Chemistry. Inorganic nanoparticles as protein mimics. Science 330, 188–189.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shchukin, D., Möhwald, H., 2013. Materials science. A coat of many functions. Science 341, 1458–1459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatar, M., Bartke, A., Antebi, A., 2003. The endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like signals. Science 299, 1346–1351.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koleilat, G.I., Kramer, I.J., Wong, C.T.O., Thon, S.M., Labelle, A.J., Hoogland, S., Sargent, E.H., 2013. Folded-light-path colloidal quantum dot solar cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 2166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D., 2008. Multi-Family Millions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Arai, T., Harino, H., Ohji, M., Langston, W.J. (Eds.), 2009. Ecotoxicology of Antifouling Biocides. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Rijken, C., Römkens, R., 2011. Trafficking for Sexual Purposes as a Globalized Shadow Economy: Human Security as the Tool to Facilitate a Human Rights Based Approach, in: Letschert, R., van Dijk, J. (Eds.), The New Faces of Victimhood: Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights, Studies in Global Justice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 73–98.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. How Trillions Of Tiny Solar Panels Could Power The Internet Of Things [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-trillions-tiny-solar-panels-could-power-internet-things/ (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, 2015. Facial Recognition Technology: Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal Law (No. GAO-15-621). 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

Kashyap, S.K., 2017. Bit Error Rate Performance of 4x2 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Conjugate Cancellation Techniques (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

Otis, J., 2016. Raising 5 Sons Alone, 3 With Autism, Takes a Toll. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kotov, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kotov, 2010; Shchukin and Möhwald, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shchukin and Möhwald, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Koleilat et al., 2013)

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