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

Norenzayan, A. 2011. Behavior. Explaining human behavioral diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332, 1041–1042.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry, D.P. and Söderberg, P. 2013. Lethal aggression in mobile forager bands and implications for the origins of war. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341, 270–273.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duckworth, R.A., Belloni, V. and Anderson, S.R. 2015. Evolutionary ecology. Cycles of species replacement emerge from locally induced maternal effects on offspring behavior in a passerine bird. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347, 875–877.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nagamatsu, J., Nakagawa, N., Muranaka, T., Zenitani, Y. and Akimitsu, J. 2001. Superconductivity at 39 K in magnesium diboride. Nature, 410, 63–64.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padova, T. and Murdock, K.L. 2010. Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Bible.

An edited book

Barkatsas, T. and Bertram, A. (eds). 2016. Global Learning in the 21st Century. Global Education in the 21st Century Series.

A chapter in an edited book

Buendía-García, F. and Benlloch-Dualde, J.V. 2012. Concept Maps and Patterns for Designing Learning Scenarios Based on Digital-Ink Technologies. In: Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Prieta, F. de la and Rodríguez, J. M. C. (eds) International Workshop on Evidence-Based Technology Enhanced Learning. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 27–35.

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

Hale, T. 2016. Baby Elephant Is Rescued From A Drain In Sri Lanka. IFLSciencehttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-elephant-rescued-drain-sri-lanka/.

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. 1978. The Air Force Continued To Develop the Advanced Logistics System, a Program It Was Directed To Cancel. LCD-78-108.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rey, D. 2017. Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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

Shpigel, B. 2016. Taking Twisted Turns. New York Times, SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norenzayan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Norenzayan 2011; Fry and Söderberg 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fry and Söderberg 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nagamatsu et al. 2001)

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

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