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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Gershon, D. 2003. Look, no hands. Nature, 424, 583.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hilf, R.J.C. and Dutzler, R. 2009. Structure of a potentially open state of a proton-activated pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. Nature, 457, 115–118.
A journal article with 3 authors
Karakas, E., Simorowski, N. and Furukawa, H. 2011. Subunit arrangement and phenylethanolamine binding in GluN1/GluN2B NMDA receptors. Nature, 475, 249–253.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Hauert, C., De Monte, S., Hofbauer, J. and Sigmund, K. 2002. Volunteering as Red Queen mechanism for cooperation in public goods games. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296, 1129–1132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Smith, C.L. 2012. Distillation Control.
An edited book
Taboada, P. (ed.). 2015. Sedation at the End-of-Life: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Philosophy and Medicine.
A chapter in an edited book
Dixon, I. and Whittaker, G. 2015. Streaming Your Media Collection from Windows Devices. In: Whittaker, G. (ed.) Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10: Music, Movies, and TV for PCs, Tablets, and Phones. 83–99.

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
Andrew, E. 2014. Cassini Probes Lakes On Titan. IFLScience.

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. 1980. The National Institute of Education Should Further Increase Minority and Female Participation in Its Activities. HRD-81-3.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Watson, C.A. 2014. A Cultural Confluence: Approaches to Embedding Cultural Insights and Inclusion throughout the Marketing Process. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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
Robles, F., Horowitz, J. and Dewan, S. 2015. Flying the Flags of White Power. 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 (Gershon 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2003; Hilf and Dutzler 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Hilf and Dutzler 2009)
  • Three or more authors: (Hauert et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleProceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
AbbreviationProc. Yorks. Geol. Soc.
ISSN (print)0044-0604
ISSN (online)2041-4811
ScopeGeology

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