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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Manchester RN (2004) Observational properties of pulsars. Science 304:542–546
A journal article with 2 authors
Rosenberg MI, Desplan C (2010) Molecular biology. Hiding in plain sight. Science 329:284–285
A journal article with 3 authors
Runguphan W, Qu X, O’Connor SE (2010) Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism. Nature 468:461–464
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Zheng Y, Danilenko DM, Valdez P, et al (2007) Interleukin-22, a T(H)17 cytokine, mediates IL-23-induced dermal inflammation and acanthosis. Nature 445:648–651

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Fryirs KA, Brierley GJ (2012) Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Nguyen HHP, Cenci MA (eds) (2015) Behavioral Neurobiology of Huntington’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Kaplansky I (2013) Integers Uniquely Represented by Certain Ternary Forms. In: Graham RL, Nešetřil J, Butler S (eds) The Mathematics of Paul Erdős I. Springer, New York, NY, pp 71–79

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 (2014) 10 Parasites That Could Be Making Your Body Their Home. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-10-parasites-may-be-making-your-body-their-home/. 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 (1999) Federal Research: Information on International Science and Technology Agreements. 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
Spindel SA (2014) Evaluation of optical sensor platforms for multiplexed detection of proteins. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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
de la MERCED MJ (2017) Looking to Bulk Up Sprint, SoftBank Is Casting an Eye on Charter. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manchester 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Manchester 2004; Rosenberg and Desplan 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Rosenberg and Desplan 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Zheng et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Seismology
AbbreviationJ. Seismol.
ISSN (print)1383-4649
ISSN (online)1573-157X
ScopeGeochemistry and Petrology
Geophysics

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