How to format your references using the Organic Geochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic Geochemistry. 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

Speed, T., 2011. Mathematics. A correlation for the 21st century. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, 1502–1503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, K.R., Ellis, B., 2002. A tropical rainforest in Colorado 1.4 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, 2379–2383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wuchty, S., Jones, B.F., Uzzi, B., 2007. The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, 1036–1039.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, S., Yamaguchi, Y., Schilbach, S., Wada, T., Lee, J., Goddard, A., French, D., Handa, H., Rosenthal, A., 2000. A regulator of transcriptional elongation controls vertebrate neuronal development. Nature 408, 366–369.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thompson, A.K., 2014. Fruit and Vegetables. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mantoiu, M., Raikov, G., Tiedra de Aldecoa, R. (Eds.), 2016. Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen, P.K., Skovgaard, L.T., 2010. Multiple regression, the linear predictor, in: Skovgaard, L.T. (Ed.), Regression with Linear Predictors, Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 231–302.

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 Organic Geochemistry.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. First Rocky Material Found Coming From The Oort Cloud At The Edge Of The Solar System [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-oort-cloud/ (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. DOT Contract Oversight (No. RCED-93-67R). 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

Sheppard, K.C., 2017. An Examination of School Choice Access, Opportunities, and Academic Outcomes in an Intra-District School Choice Program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Pilon, M., 2014. Race-Fixing Let Musician Reach Sochi, Ski Group Says. New York Times D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Speed, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson and Ellis, 2002; Speed, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Ellis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic Geochemistry
Abbreviation	Org. Geochem.
ISSN (print)	0146-6380
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology