How to format your references using the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 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

Church, G., 2005. Let us go forth and safely multiply. Nature 438, 423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freckleton, R.P., Sutherland, W.J., 2001. Hospital waiting-lists. Do power laws imply self-regulation? Nature 413, 382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gormley, W.T., Jr, Phillips, D., Gayer, T., 2008. The early years. Preschool programs can boost school readiness. Science 320, 1723–1724.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, M., Wang, T., Ma, H., Fu, Y., Hu, K., Guan, C., 2014. Assembly of luminescent ordered multilayer thin-films based on oppositely-charged MMT and magnetic NiFe-LDHs nanosheets with ultra-long lifetimes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski, E.J., 2009. Managing Hedge Fund Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chesney, M., 2016. Environmental Finance and Investments, 2nd ed. 2016. ed, Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Heo, S., Han, J., Lee, G., 2015. Designing for Hover- and Force-Enriched Touch Interaction, in: Wyeld, T., Calder, P., Shen, H. (Eds.), Computer-Human Interaction. Cognitive Effects of Spatial Interaction, Learning, and Ability: 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2013, Adelaide, SA, Australia, November 25-29, 2013. Revised and Extended Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 68–87.

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 Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Museum’s Blue Whale Skeleton Found To Be A “Time Capsule” From 1930s [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, 2007. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirements Is Not Clear (No. GAO-07-778T). 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

Balakrishnan, G., 2017. Cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing (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

Wagner, J., 2016. Even With Little Shut-Eye, Mets Turn Lights Out on Reds. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Church, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Church, 2005; Freckleton and Sutherland, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Freckleton and Sutherland, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Abbreviation	J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res.
ISSN (print)	0377-0273
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics