How to format your references using the Quaternary Geochronology citation style

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

Baker, M., 2012. Biorepositories: Building better biobanks. Nature 486, 141–146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ransohoff, R.M., Cardona, A.E., 2010. The myeloid cells of the central nervous system parenchyma. Nature 468, 253–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gonsamo, A., Chen, J.M., Wu, C., 2013. Citizen Science: linking the recent rapid advances of plant flowering in Canada with climate variability. Sci. Rep. 3, 2239.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leunissen, M.E., Christova, C.G., Hynninen, A.-P., Royall, C.P., Campbell, A.I., Imhof, A., Dijkstra, M., van Roij, R., van Blaaderen, A., 2005. Ionic colloidal crystals of oppositely charged particles. Nature 437, 235–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Siddiqi, N., 2017. Intelligent Credit Scoring. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fu, S., Haase, W., Peng, S.-H., Schwamborn, D. (Eds.), 2012. Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling: Papers Contributed to the 4th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, Beijing, China, September 2011, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sidhu, A.S., Bellgard, M., 2009. Protein Data Integration Problem, in: Sidhu, A.S., Dillon, T.S. (Eds.), Biomedical Data and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 55–69.

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 Quaternary Geochronology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Air Pollution Causes More Than 3 Million Premature Deaths A Year Worldwide [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/air-pollution-causes-more-3-million-premature-deaths-year-worldwide/ (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, 1970. Use of Consultants by NASA (No. B-168033). 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

Sumner, I., 2010. Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, M., Dowd, M., 1993. The Company He Keeps. New York Times 620.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2012; Ransohoff and Cardona, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ransohoff and Cardona, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Leunissen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quaternary Geochronology
Abbreviation	Quat. Geochronol.
ISSN (print)	1871-1014
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geology Stratigraphy