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

Perkel, J.M., 2015. Rate that journal. Nature 520, 119–120.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuncel, N.R., Hezlett, S.A., 2007. Assessment. Standardized tests predict graduate students’ success. Science 315, 1080–1081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ottosen, S., Herrera, F.J., Triezenberg, S.J., 2002. Transcription. Proteasome parts at gene promoters. Science 296, 479–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herbig, U., Ferreira, M., Condel, L., Carey, D., Sedivy, J.M., 2006. Cellular senescence in aging primates. Science 311, 1257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edmonds, M.E., Foster, A.V.M., Sanders, L.J., 2008. A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Chen, H., Kao, L.S. (Eds.), 2012. Success in Academic Surgery: Part 1. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Ho, D., 2015. Nanodiamond-Based Chemotherapy and Imaging, in: Mirkin, C.A., Meade, T.J., Petrosko, S.H., Stegh, A.H. (Eds.), Nanotechnology-Based Precision Tools for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer, Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 85–102.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Artificial Proteins Could Bring The Next Biological Revolution – Starting With MRI [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-proteins-could-bring-next-biological-revolution-starting-mri/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Faces Tremendous Challenges in Ensuring That Vital Public Services Are Not Disrupted (No. T-AIMD-98-167). 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

Nye, K.M., 2010. Crème de Pêche (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Protess, B., Apuzzo, M., 2017. Tougher on Corporate Crime. For Now. 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 (Perkel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kuncel and Hezlett, 2007; Perkel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kuncel and Hezlett, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Herbig et al., 2006)

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