How to format your references using the Journal of Geochemical Exploration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 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

Buffett, B.A., 2010. Geophysics. The enigmatic inner core. Science 328, 982–983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domon, B., Aebersold, R., 2006. Mass spectrometry and protein analysis. Science 312, 212–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gratson, G.M., Xu, M., Lewis, J.A., 2004. Microperiodic structures: direct writing of three-dimensional webs. Nature 428, 386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Azoulay, P., Graff-Zivin, J., Uzzi, B., Wang, D., Williams, H., Evans, J.A., Jin, G.Z., Lu, S.F., Jones, B.F., Börner, K., Lakhani, K.R., Boudreau, K.J., Guinan, E.C., 2018. Toward a more scientific science. Science 361, 1194–1197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jelaska, D., 2012. Gears and Gear Drives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Handa, H., Ishibuchi, H., Ong, Y.-S., Tan, K.-C. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems - Volume 2, Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sachdev, U., Tzeng, E., 2014. Tips on Maintaining an Effective Lab Notebook for Bench Research, in: Kibbe, M.R., LeMaire, S.A. (Eds.), Success in Academic Surgery: Basic Science, Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, London, pp. 51–63.

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 Geochemical Exploration.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Scientists Are Exploring One Of The Deepest, Most Mysterious Parts Of The Ocean In A Submarine Right Now, And You Can Watch Live [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/you-can-watch-scientists-explore-mariana-trench-live/ (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, 1986. School Dropouts: The Extent and Nature of the Problem (No. HRD-86-106BR). 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

Shackelford, V., 2014. Mary’s mandala story: Images of chaos in mandala psychology (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Barron, J., 2016. Overlooked Influences in Trump’s Life: A Famous Minister and His Church. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buffett, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Buffett, 2010; Domon and Aebersold, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Domon and Aebersold, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Azoulay et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geochemical Exploration
Abbreviation	J. Geochem. Explor.
ISSN (print)	0375-6742
Scope	Economic Geology Geochemistry and Petrology