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

Gravitz, L., 2014. Liver cancer. Nature 516, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedrich, R.W., Laurent, G., 2001. Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity. Science 291, 889–894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tagliabue, G., Eghlidi, H., Poulikakos, D., 2014. Rapid-response low infrared emission broadband ultrathin plasmonic light absorber. Sci. Rep. 4, 7181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brohawn, S.G., Leksa, N.C., Spear, E.D., Rajashankar, K.R., Schwartz, T.U., 2008. Structural evidence for common ancestry of the nuclear pore complex and vesicle coats. Science 322, 1369–1373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padmanabhan, T.R., Bala Tripura Sundari, B., 2005. Design Through Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Anttila, S., Boffetta, P. (Eds.), 2014. Occupational Cancers. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam, E.S.L., Cervesato, I., Fatima, N., 2015. Comingle: Distributed Logic Programming for Decentralized Mobile Ensembles, in: Holvoet, T., Viroli, M. (Eds.), Coordination Models and Languages: 17th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2015, Held as Part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015, Grenoble, France, June 2-4, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–66.

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 Geochemical Exploration.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Why This Spot On The Jersey Coast Was Like A Magnet For Neanderthals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-this-spot-on-the-jersey-coast-was-like-a-magnet-for-neanderthals/ (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, 1998. Domestic Aviation: Service Problems and Limited Competition Continue in Some Markets (No. T-RCED-98-176). 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

Moshfegh, N., 2014. The multidimensional wellbeing assessment: Preliminary validation in an Iranian sample (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Philpott, M.L., 2017. My Adventures in Accountability. New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Friedrich and Laurent, 2001; Gravitz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Friedrich and Laurent, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Brohawn et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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