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

Desiraju, G.R., 2012. Policy: Bold strategies for Indian science. Nature 484, 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodell, M.A., Rando, T.A., 2015. Stem cells and healthy aging. Science 350, 1199–1204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mashchenko, S., Couchman, H.M.P., Wadsley, J., 2006. The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe. Nature 442, 539–542.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, W., Chang, J., Jakana, J., Weigele, P., King, J., Chiu, W., 2006. Structure of epsilon15 bacteriophage reveals genome organization and DNA packaging/injection apparatus. Nature 439, 612–616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merritt, C., 2015. Process Steam Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Smith, D., Lommerse, M., Metcalfe, P. (Eds.), 2014. Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture: Life from the Inside, 2nd ed. 2014. ed. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison, S.D., 2012. Singing, Men and Australian Culture, in: Harrison, S.D., Welch, G.F., Adler, A. (Eds.), Perspectives on Males and Singing. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–75.

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. Why Meteors Light Up The Night Sky [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2004. Information Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced Systems (No. GAO-04-509). 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

Antoshin, S., 2010. Modeling inflation expectations in the U.K (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Half-Century at Daytona, Off the Fourth Turn. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Desiraju, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Desiraju, 2012; Goodell and Rando, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Goodell and Rando, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Jiang 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