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

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

Martienssen, R., 2010. Molecular biology. Small RNA makes its move. Science 328, 834–835.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spaldin, N.A., Fiebig, M., 2005. Materials science. The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics. Science 309, 391–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bogorad, I.W., Lin, T.-S., Liao, J.C., 2013. Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation. Nature 502, 693–697.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kirsch, D.G., Santiago, P.M., di Tomaso, E., Sullivan, J.M., Hou, W.-S., Dayton, T., Jeffords, L.B., Sodha, P., Mercer, K.L., Cohen, R., Takeuchi, O., Korsmeyer, S.J., Bronson, R.T., Kim, C.F., Haigis, K.M., Jain, R.K., Jacks, T., 2010. p53 controls radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome in mice independent of apoptosis. Science 327, 593–596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moe, T.M., Chubb, J.E., 2009. Liberating Learning. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

Donelli, G. (Ed.), 2016. Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Volume 4, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruggeri, T., Sugiyama, M., 2015. RET of Rarefied Monatomic Gas, in: Sugiyama, M. (Ed.), Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–106.

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: X.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Neil deGrasse Explains How Batman Could Defeat Superman [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, 2002. NASA Contract Payments (No. GAO-02-642R). 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

Sefrit, J., 2008. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2012. New Treasury Rules Ease 401(k) Annuity Purchase. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Martienssen, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Martienssen, 2010; Spaldin and Fiebig, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Spaldin and Fiebig, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kirsch et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X
ISSN (print)	2590-0560
Scope