How to format your references using the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 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

Marty, T. 2012. Research efficiency: Clean up the waste. Nature, 484, 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mani, R.G. and Kriisa, A. 2013. Magneto-transport characteristics of a 2D electron system driven to negative magneto-conductivity by microwave photoexcitation. Scientific reports, 3, 3478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Su, D., Dou, S. and Wang, G. 2014. Single crystalline Co3O4 nanocrystals exposed with different crystal planes for Li-O2 batteries. Scientific reports, 4, 5767.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Ge, X., et al. 2014. Comparison of non-canonical PAMs for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage in human cells. Scientific reports, 4, 5405.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tiwari, A., Gerhardt, R.A. and Szutkowska, M. 2016. Advanced Ceramic Materials.

An edited book

Scaglione, M. 2012. La TCMD Nel Trauma Ad Elevata Energia. Andreoli, C. (ed.). Springer ABC.

A chapter in an edited book

Lamersdorf, W. 2010. Actual Paradigms of Distributed Software Development: Services and Self Organization. In: Cellary, W. and Estevez, E. (eds) Software Services for E-World: 10th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 3-5, 2010. Proceedings. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 4–4.

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 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. Gulf Oil Spill Completely Destroyed This Island. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/environment/oil-ate-island/.

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. 2000. Transit Grants: Department of Labor’s Certification Process. T-RCED-00-157.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Scaramella, J. 2013. Physical Activity and Red Light Foods Consumed in ASPIRE-VA Veterans. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. 2002. A Little Deli Goes the Way Of So Many In the City. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marty 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Marty 2012; Mani and Kriisa 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mani and Kriisa 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
Abbreviation	Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0044-0604
ISSN (online)	2041-4811
Scope	Geology