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

Anderson JB (2007) Climate change. Ice sheet stability and sea-level rise. Science 315:1803–1804

A journal article with 2 authors

Coussens LM, Werb Z (2002) Inflammation and cancer. Nature 420:860–867

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo J, Zhu J, Ye H (2004) Comment on “Tubular graphite cones.” Science 303:766; author reply 766

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Perry AL, Low PJ, Ellis JR, Reynolds JD (2005) Climate change and distribution shifts in marine fishes. Science 308:1912–1915

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez R (2005) A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Wenzel F, Zschau J (eds) (2014) Early Warning for Geological Disasters: Scientific Methods and Current Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Huang J, Pandit C, Meyn SP, et al (2007) Entropy, Inference, and Channel Coding. In: Agrawal P, Fleming PJ, Zhang L, et al. (eds) Wireless Communications. Springer, New York, NY, pp 99–124

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

Luntz S (2017) Industry-Funded Drug Trials Produce More Positive Findings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/industryfunded-drug-trials-produce-more-positive-findings/. 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 (2014) Small Business Innovation Research: Change in Program Eligibility Has Had Little Impact. 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

Biller JT (2012) Cyber-Terrorism: Finding a Common Starting Point. 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

Lee L (2013) Connect the Blocks. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anderson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coussens and Werb 2002; Anderson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Coussens and Werb 2002)
Three or more authors: (Perry 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