How to format your references using the Journal of Structural Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Structural Geology. 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	Download the output style file
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

McKee, M., 2012. Sally Ride (1951-2012). Nature 488, 460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chi, A.S., Bernstein, B.E., 2009. Developmental biology. Pluripotent chromatin state. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323, 220–221.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vivier, E., Nunès, J.A., Vély, F., 2004. Natural killer cell signaling pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, 1517–1519.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Geleziunas, R., Xu, W., Takeda, K., Ichijo, H., Greene, W.C., 2001. HIV-1 Nef inhibits ASK1-dependent death signalling providing a potential mechanism for protecting the infected host cell. Nature 410, 834–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holmes, J.D., 2016. Great Myths of Education and Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Das, I., Tuen, A.A. (Eds.), 2016. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia, Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiu, C.-J., 2016. Cultivating a Humanistic Mind: A View from Taiwan. In: Chan, E.T.Y., O’Sullivan, M. (Eds.), The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts, The Humanities in Asia. Springer, Singapore, 57–75.

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 Structural Geology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. This Parasitic Flatworm Does Not Like the Tropics [WWW Document], IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-flatworm-does-not-tropics/ (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, 1985. Opportunities and Constraints for Expanding Use of Research Facilities at the National Bureau of Standards. No. RCED-85-55. 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

Rouhani, M., 2013. Overdose prevention and naloxone distribution: A grant project. 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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman., New York Times MM38.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKee, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chi and Bernstein, 2009; McKee, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chi and Bernstein, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Geleziunas et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Structural Geology
Abbreviation	J. Struct. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0191-8141
Scope	Geology