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

Schiermeier, Q. (2004). Renaissance in Spain. Nature 428, 448–449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clem, R. L. & Huganir, R. L. (2010). Calcium-permeable AMPA receptor dynamics mediate fear memory erasure. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, 1108–1112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, I., Zuber, M. T. & Schrag, D. P. (2007). A sulfur dioxide climate feedback on early Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, 1903–1907.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Anderson, G. G., Palermo, J. J., Schilling, J. D., Roth, R., Heuser, J. & Hultgren, S. J. (2003). Intracellular bacterial biofilm-like pods in urinary tract infections. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 105–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raghavan, V. (2016). Combustion Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rousseau, C. (2009). Mathématiques et Technologie. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Clerbout, N. & Rahman, S. (2015). The Dialogical Take on the Axiom of Choice, and Its Translation into CTT. In: Rahman, S. (ed.) Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 53–85.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016). ALMA Revisits Hubble’s Famous Ultra Deep Field Image Of The Distant Universe. 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 (1998). FCC: Reconsideration of the Rules and Policies for the 220-222 MHz Radio Service. 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

Katukuri, J. (2012). Relationship Extraction and Link Discovery from Biomedical Literature. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA, University of Louisiana.

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. (2000). Capriati Moves On, Calmly. New York Times, 29 August, page D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2004; Clem and Huganir, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Clem and Huganir, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al., 2003)

About the journal

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