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

Moore PD (2000) Conservation biology. Seeds of doubt. Nature 407:683, 685

A journal article with 2 authors

Dobbelaere J, Barral Y (2004) Spatial coordination of cytokinetic events by compartmentalization of the cell cortex. Science 305:393–396

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss IZ, Zhai Y, Hudson JL (2002) Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science 296:1676–1678

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Erb Downward JR, Falkowski NR, Mason KL, et al (2013) Modulation of post-antibiotic bacterial community reassembly and host response by Candida albicans. Sci Rep 3:2191

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hiltscher G, Mühlthaler W, Smits J (2003) Industrial Pigging Technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Page R, Horváth Z, Zsók V (eds) (2011) Trends in Functional Programming: 11th International Symposium, TFP 2010, Norman, OK, USA, May 17-19, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gilligan K (2014) The Non-Proliferation Regime and the NPT. In: Black-Branch JL, Fleck D (eds) Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume I. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, pp 85–104

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

Andrew E (2015) After 20 Years, Buckyballs Have Been Confirmed In Space. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-20-years-buckyballs-have-been-confirmed-space/. 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 (2016) Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities. 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

Gibson JJ (2017) An Assessment of Factors Relating to High School Students’ Science Self-Efficacy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Greenhouse L (2008) Justices Narrow Money-Laundering Law. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Moore 2000; Dobbelaere and Barral 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dobbelaere and Barral 2004)
Three or more authors: (Erb Downward et al. 2013)

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