How to format your references using the Journal of Petrology citation style

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

Burtis, K. C. (2002). Development. Doublesex in the middle. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 1135–1136.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan, F. & Huang, L. (2014). Brittle to ductile transition in densified silica glass. Scientific reports 4, 5035.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruefli-Brasse, A. A., French, D. M. & Dixit, V. M. (2003). Regulation of NF-kappaB-dependent lymphocyte activation and development by paracaspase. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, 1581–1584.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Kamiya, D. et al. (2011). Intrinsic transition of embryonic stem-cell differentiation into neural progenitors. Nature 470, 503–509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi, M. (2007). Stereoselective Synthesis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Finley, G. A., McGrath, P. J. & Chambers, C. T. (eds) (2006). Bringing Pain Relief to Children: Treatment Approaches. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Ju, Y. (2011). Evaluation of Electrical Properties. In: Saka, M. (ed.) Metallic Micro and Nano Materials: Fabrication with Atomic Diffusion. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 143–172.

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 Petrology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Scientists Claim To Have Translated Panda “Language.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 (1990). FAA Procurement: Competition for Major Data-Processing Project Was Unjustifiably Limited. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Nevin, M. J. (2017). Addressing the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods Associated with Participation in Student Government Associations: A Qualitative Study of California Community Colleges. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. (2003). Trying to Make Douglass Circle A Gateway, Not a Roadblock. New York Times, 20 April, page 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burtis, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Burtis, 2002; Yuan and Huang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yuan and Huang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kamiya et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Petrology
ISSN (print)	0022-3530
ISSN (online)	1460-2415
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics