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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Seismology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Carpenter S (2007) Careers in behavioral science. Behavioral scientists get off the trail. Science 316:1058–1059

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergstrom CT, Kerr B (2015) Microbiology: Taking the bad with the good. Nature 521:431–432

A journal article with 3 authors

Morens DM, Folkers GK, Fauci AS (2004) The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Nature 430:242–249

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Biswas T, Aihara H, Radman-Livaja M, et al (2005) A structural basis for allosteric control of DNA recombination by lambda integrase. Nature 435:1059–1066

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H (2015) Project Management 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Naka K (ed) (2007) Biomineralization I: Crystallization and Self-Organization Process. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abascal J, Fernández de Castro I, Lafuente A, Cia JM (2008) Adaptive Interfaces for Supportive Ambient Intelligence Environments. In: Miesenberger K, Klaus J, Zagler W, Karshmer A (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 11th International Conference, ICCHP 2008, Linz, Austria, July 9-11, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 30–37

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 Seismology.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) LSD-bunked: How Research Is Finally Separating The Facts From The Myths Surrounding Acid. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1997) DOD Aviator Positions: Training Requirements and Incentive Pay Could Be Reduced. 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

Mahler EB (2008) Defining career success in the 21st century: A narrative study of intentional work role transitions. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Billard M (2010) High Talent At Low Prices. New York Times E4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carpenter 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Carpenter 2007; Bergstrom and Kerr 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bergstrom and Kerr 2015)
Three or more authors: (Biswas et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Seismology
Abbreviation	J. Seismol.
ISSN (print)	1383-4649
ISSN (online)	1573-157X
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics