How to format your references using the Journal of South American Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 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

Putterman, L., 2010. Behavior. Cooperation and punishment. Science 328, 578–579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, H., Owen, M.R., 2013. Damped propagation of cell polarization explains distinct PCP phenotypes of epithelial patterning. Sci. Rep. 3, 2528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wasan, D.T., Nikolov, A.D., Brenner, H., 2001. Fluid dynamics. Droplets speeding on surfaces. Science 291, 605–606.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keerthi, A., Geim, A.K., Janardanan, A., Rooney, A.P., Esfandiar, A., Hu, S., Dar, S.A., Grigorieva, I.V., Haigh, S.J., Wang, F.C., Radha, B., 2018. Ballistic molecular transport through two-dimensional channels. Nature 558, 420–424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jeong, H., 2014. Architectures for Computer Vision. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Roesky, P.W. (Ed.), 2010. Molecular Catalysis of Rare-Earth Elements, Structure and Bonding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chubarikov, V.N., 2006. On the Hilbert-Kamke and the Vinogradov Problems in Additive Number Theory, in: Zhang, W., Tanigawa, Y. (Eds.), Number Theory: Tradition and Modernization, Developments in Mathematics. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 27–37.

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 South American Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. Mosquitos Captured In High-Speed Reveal Flight Unlike Any Other Insect [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mosquitos-captured-in-high-speed-reveal-flight-unlike-any-other-insect/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Pipeline Safety: Department of Transportation Needs to Complete Regulatory, Data, and Guidance Efforts (No. GAO-15-843T). 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

Schick, V.R., 2010. Examining the vulva: The relationship between female genital aesthetic perceptions and gynecological care (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Delury, J., 2017. Making a North Korea deal. New York Times 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Putterman, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Putterman, 2010; Zhu and Owen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Owen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Keerthi et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Abbreviation	J. South Am. Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)	0895-9811
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geology