How to format your references using the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw (NJG). 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

Prum, R.O., 2008. Evolution. Who’s your daddy? Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5909): 1799–1800.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denef, V.J. & Banfield, J.F., 2012. In situ evolutionary rate measurements show ecological success of recently emerged bacterial hybrids. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6080): 462–466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rulifson, E.J., Kim, S.K. & Nusse, R., 2002. Ablation of insulin-producing neurons in flies: growth and diabetic phenotypes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5570): 1118–1120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hanson, J.A., Chang, C.B., Graves, S.M., Li, Z., Mason, T.G. & Deming, T.J., 2008. Nanoscale double emulsions stabilized by single-component block copolypeptides. Nature 455(7209): 85–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, H. & Prescott, R., 2014. Applied Mixed Models in Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Quarteroni, A., 2008. Calcolo Scientifico: Esercizi e problemi risolti con MATLAB e Octave (F. Saleri, ed.). Springer (Milano): 4a edizione, XIV, 362 pagg pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Natour, G., 2016. The Nakba—Flight and Expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. In: A. Hoppe (ed.): Catastrophes: Views from Natural and Human Sciences. Springer International Publishing (Cham): pp. 81–104.

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 Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015, May 14. Robotic Octopus Arm Could Revolutionize Surgery. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from IFLScience website: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-octopus-arm-will-revolutionize-surgery/

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, 1992. FBI: Advanced Communications Technologies Pose Wiretapping Challenges (No. IMTEC-92-68BR). 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

Jansson, A., 2017. Stratigraphy, Landscape Evolution, and Past Environments at the Billy Big Spring Site, Montana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Wagner, J., 2017, September 20. For Matz, and Mets, Another Comeback Has Proved Difficult to Fulfill. New York Times p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prum, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Prum, 2008; Denef & Banfield, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Denef & Banfield, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hanson et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw
ISSN (print)	0016-7746
ISSN (online)	1573-9708
Scope