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

Running, S.W., 2012. Ecology. A measurable planetary boundary for the biosphere. Science 337, 1458–1459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vollmer, D., Butt, H.-J., 2015. Materials science: Droplets leap into action. Nature 527, 41–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nimmerjahn, A., Kirchhoff, F., Helmchen, F., 2005. Resting microglial cells are highly dynamic surveillants of brain parenchyma in vivo. Science 308, 1314–1318.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, W., Zhou, J., Li, B., Ma, J., Tao, S., Xia, D., Chu, W., Wu, Z., 2014. Detailed investigation of Na2.24FePO4CO3 as a cathode material for Na-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4, 4188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C., 2014. An Introduction to LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lang, J., Lin, F., Wang, J. (Eds.), 2006. Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: First International Conference, KSEM 2006, Guilin, China, August 5-8, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaban, V.V., 2008. Estrogen Modulation of Visceral Nociception, in: Ritsner, M.S., Weizman, A. (Eds.), Neuroactive Steroids in Brain Function, Behavior and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Novel Strategies for Research and Treatment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 89–102.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Spectacular New Image Of The Magellanic Clouds Released [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, 2004. Student Loan Programs: Lower Interest Rates and Higher Loan Volume Have Increased Federal Consolidation Loan Costs (No. GAO-04-568T). 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

Maddox, A.L., 2017. Secondary Structure Analysis of the C-Terminus of Gα-Interacting Vesicle Associated Protein Using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy (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

Hollander, S., 2002. Golden Arms Tourney Continues a Quest. New York Times 86.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Running, 2012; Vollmer and Butt, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vollmer and Butt, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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