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

Reitz, S.R., 2007. Ecology. Invasion of the whiteflies. Science 318, 1733–1734.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, J., Druffel, E.R.M., 2003. Lipid-like material as the source of the uncharacterized organic carbon in the ocean? Science 299, 881–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khanna, K.M., McNamara, J.T., Lefrançois, L., 2007. In situ imaging of the endogenous CD8 T cell response to infection. Science 318, 116–120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Taylor, S.S., Hardwick, K.G., Sawin, K.E., Biggins, S., Piatti, S., Khodjakov, A., Rieder, C.L., Salmon, E.D., Musacchio, A., 2007. Comment on “A centrosome-independent role for gamma-TuRC proteins in the spindle assembly checkpoint.” Science 316, 982; author reply 982.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lombard, M., 2009. SolidWorks® Administration Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Bhalla, S. (Ed.), 2005. Databases in Networked Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, DNIS 2005, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 28-30, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Teichler, U., Arimoto, A., Cummings, W.K., 2013. The Academic Career, in: Arimoto, A., Cummings, W.K. (Eds.), The Changing Academic Profession: Major Findings of a Comparative Survey. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–116.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Giant Galaxies Die From The Inside When They Stop Making Stars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/giant-galaxies-die-inside-when-they-stop-making-stars/ (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. Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked (No. GAO-15-296). 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

Caldretti, M., 2017. Vocal Pedagogy and the Adolescent Female Singing Voice (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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. ‘Transparency’ Of Tweets Risks Eroding Media’s Trust. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reitz, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang and Druffel, 2003; Reitz, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hwang and Druffel, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Taylor et al., 2007)

About the journal

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