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

Abbott, A., 2002. A physical response to architecture. Nature 420, 126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, E.B., Molinero, V., 2011. Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice. Nature 479, 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Nions, K., Pitman, R., Marsh, C., 2002. Science of nuclear warheads. Nature 415, 853–857.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

De, K., Kasliwal, M.M., Ofek, E.O., Moriya, T.J., Burke, J., Cao, Y., Cenko, S.B., Doran, G.B., Duggan, G.E., Fender, R.P., Fransson, C., Gal-Yam, A., Horesh, A., Kulkarni, S.R., Laher, R.R., Lunnan, R., Manulis, I., Masci, F., Mazzali, P.A., Nugent, P.E., Perley, D.A., Petrushevska, T., Piro, A.L., Rumsey, C., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M., Taddia, F., 2018. A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary. Science 362, 201–206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, P., 2008. The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Pradalier, C., Siegwart, R., Hirzinger, G. (Eds.), 2011. Robotics Research: The 14th International Symposium ISRR, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mähne, T., Vachoux, A., 2007. ModelLib: A Web-Based Platform for Collecting Behavioural Models and Supporting the Design of AMS Systems, in: Huss, S.A. (Ed.), Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embedded Systems: Selected Contributions from FDL’06. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–88.

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., 2015. Where Are The Missing Gravitational Waves? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/where-are-missing-gravitational-waves/ (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, 2005. Commercial Aviation: Preliminary Observations on Legacy Airlines’ Financial Condition, Bankruptcy, and Pension Issues (No. GAO-05-835T). 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

Korobenko, A., 2014. Advanced Fluid–Structure Interaction Techniques in Application to Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2002; Moore and Molinero, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Molinero, 2011)
Three or more authors: (De et al., 2018)

About the journal

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