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

Huang, A.S.-H., 2004. Follow your nose. Nature 428, 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blau, W.J., Fleming, A.J., 2004. Materials science. Designer nanotubes by molecular self-assembly. Science 304, 1457–1458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bortnik, J., Thorne, R.M., Meredith, N.P., 2008. The unexpected origin of plasmaspheric hiss from discrete chorus emissions. Nature 452, 62–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Loos, R.J.F., Barroso, I., O’rahilly, S., Wareham, N.J., 2007. Comment on “A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity.” Science 315, 187; author reply 187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter, R.J., 1998. Local Emergency Planning Committee Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gdoutos, E.E. (Ed.), 2006. Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3–7, 2006. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian, G., 2012. Existence of Einstein Metrics on Fano Manifolds, in: Dai, X., Rong, X. (Eds.), Metric and Differential Geometry: The Jeff Cheeger Anniversary Volume. Springer, Basel, pp. 119–159.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. The Lost Ocean Of Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/lost-ocean-mars/ (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, 1991. Computer Technology: Air Attack Warning System Cannot Process All Radar Track Data (No. IMTEC-91-15). 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

Waldner, B.W., 2013. Determining Relationships Between Technology Acceptance and Employee Attitudes Toward Automated Workflows in the Oil Industry (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Film Series. New York Times C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huang, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Blau and Fleming, 2004; Huang, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Blau and Fleming, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Loos et al., 2007)

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