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

Blow, N., 2007. Genomics: the personal side of genomics. Nature 449, 627–630.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dixon, A.R., Sato, H., 2014. High speed and adaptable error correction for megabit/s rate quantum key distribution. Sci. Rep. 4, 7275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acar, M., Becskei, A., van Oudenaarden, A., 2005. Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature 435, 228–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kam, T.-I., Mao, X., Park, H., Chou, S.-C., Karuppagounder, S.S., Umanah, G.E., Yun, S.P., Brahmachari, S., Panicker, N., Chen, R., Andrabi, S.A., Qi, C., Poirier, G.G., Pletnikova, O., Troncoso, J.C., Bekris, L.M., Leverenz, J.B., Pantelyat, A., Ko, H.S., Rosenthal, L.S., Dawson, T.M., Dawson, V.L., 2018. Poly(ADP-ribose) drives pathologic α-synuclein neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science 362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, C., Lin, J., 2013. Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bogomolov, F., Tschinkel, Y. (Eds.), 2005. Geometric Methods in Algebra and Number Theory, Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Theodori, G.L., Kyle, G.T., 2013. Community, Place, and Conservation, in: Stewart, W.P., Williams, D.R., Kruger, L.E. (Eds.), Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 59–70.

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. To Avoid Mantids, Stinkbugs Evolved To Hide In Plain Sight [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/avoid-mantids-stinkbugs-evolved-hide-plain-sight/ (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, 1992. Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1991 (No. RCED-93-50). 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

Maddox, C.E., 2012. Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Bidgood, J., 2017. In Storm-Filled Season, Hurricane Nate Is Greeted With Relief. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2007; Dixon and Sato, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dixon and Sato, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kam 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