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

Xie, Y., 2014. Sociology of science. “Undemocracy”: inequalities in science. Science 344, 809–810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, T., Eberly, J.H., 2009. Sudden death of entanglement. Science 323, 598–601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sokolov, S., Scheuer, T., Catterall, W.A., 2007. Gating pore current in an inherited ion channelopathy. Nature 446, 76–78.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clark, J.M., Xu, X., Forster, C.A., Wang, Y., 2004. A Middle Jurassic “sphenosuchian” from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull. Nature 430, 1021–1024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Groves, E., 2009. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gupta, I., Mascolo, C. (Eds.), 2010. Middleware 2010: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference, Bangalore, India, November 29 - December 3, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fankhauser, P., Hutter, M., 2016. A Universal Grid Map Library: Implementation and Use Case for Rough Terrain Navigation, in: Koubaa, A. (Ed.), Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 1), Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 99–120.

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

Taub, B., 2016. New Research Reveals How Neurons “Grab” Memories [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1991. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Advanced Automation System Contract (No. IMTEC-91-25). 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

Tafoya, A., 2010. Impact of HIV/AIDS stigma on seropositive Latinos along the United States-Mexico border (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Lamar Debuts at No. 1. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xie, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Xie, 2014; Yu and Eberly, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yu and Eberly, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Clark et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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