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

Triendl, R., 2002. Back to basics. Nature 420, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purves, D., Pacala, S., 2008. Predictive models of forest dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, 1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C.-Y.T., Poo, M.-M., Dan, Y., 2009. Burst spiking of a single cortical neuron modifies global brain state. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324, 643–646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, Q., He, W., Liu, H.-L., Ye, J., Zhang, X.-Q., Yang, H.-T., Chen, Z.-Y., Cheng, Z.-H., 2013. Tuning magnetic anisotropies of Fe films on Si(111) substrate via direction variation of heating current. Scientific reports 3, 1547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burwick, F., 2015. Romanticism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Florentine, M., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (Eds.), 2011. Loudness, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Salomon, D., Motta, G., 2010. Statistical Methods, in: Motta, G. (Ed.), Handbook of Data Compression. Springer, London, pp. 211–327.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. One Billion People In Immediate Jeopardy If Paris Agreement Fails [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/one-billion-people-immediate-jeopardy-paris-agreement-fails/ (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, 2004. Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Information on Program Cost and Schedule Changes (No. GAO-04-1054). 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

Moris, F.A., 2015. International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Urbina, I., 2016. Rising Seas Turn Coastal Houses Into a Gamble. 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 (Triendl, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl, 2002; Purves and Pacala, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Purves and Pacala, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2013)

About the journal

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