How to format your references using the Ore Geology Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ore Geology Reviews. 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

Wand, A.J., 2001. On the dynamic origins of allosteric activation. Science 293, 1395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Churchman, L.S., Weissman, J.S., 2011. Nascent transcript sequencing visualizes transcription at nucleotide resolution. Nature 469, 368–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubi, Y., Meir, Y., Avishai, Y., 2007. Nature of the superconductor-insulator transition in disordered superconductors. Nature 449, 876–880.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sugimoto, Y., Pou, P., Abe, M., Jelinek, P., Pérez, R., Morita, S., Custance, O., 2007. Chemical identification of individual surface atoms by atomic force microscopy. Nature 446, 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McBee, J., 2009. Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Wu, Y. (Ed.), 2012. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolino, A., Bucchiarone, A., Gnesi, S., Muccini, H., 2005. An Architecture-Centric Approach for Producing Quality Systems, in: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (Eds.), Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality: First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005, and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–37.

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 Ore Geology Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Watch a Clam “Lick” Salt Off a Table [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, 1988. Aircraft Noise: Implementation of FAA’s Expanded East Coast Plan (No. RCED-88-143). 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

Christiansen, D.A., 2012. Investigation of magnetic proximity effect in ferromagnet/superconductor thin films by low temperature Magneto Optical Kerr Effect measurement (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

Gordon, M.R., Schmitt, E., 2017. Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wand, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Churchman and Weissman, 2011; Wand, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Churchman and Weissman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sugimoto et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ore Geology Reviews
Abbreviation	Ore Geol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0169-1368
Scope	Economic Geology Geochemistry and Petrology Geology