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

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

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