How to format your references using the Sedimentary Geology citation style

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

Bohman, T., 2009. Mathematics. Emergence of connectivity in networks. Science 323, 1438–1439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grandi, P., Palumbo, G.G.C., 2004. Jet and accretion-disk emission untangled in 3C 273. Science 306, 998–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg, E., Metlitski, M.A., Sachdev, S., 2012. Sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo of the onset of antiferromagnetism in metals. Science 338, 1606–1609.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Malinina, L., Malakhova, M.L., Teplov, A., Brown, R.E., Patel, D.J., 2004. Structural basis for glycosphingolipid transfer specificity. Nature 430, 1048–1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson, J.L., 1997. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Sigaud, O., Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), 2009. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Psychological Theories to Artificial Cognitive Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuen, B., 2011. Garden and Ecology in the Sky, in: Yuen, B., Yeh, A.G.O. (Eds.), High-Rise Living in Asian Cities. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–79.

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 Sedimentary Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. The Year Coal Collapsed: 2016 Was A Turning Point For Britain’s Electricity [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-year-coal-collapsed-2016-was-a-turning-point-for-britains-electricity/ (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, 1979. What Assurance Does Office of Education’s Eligibility Process Provide? (No. HRD-78-120). 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

Collette, J.C., 2017. Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kercher, S., 2016. From Pinup to Muse. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohman, 2009; Grandi and Palumbo, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Grandi and Palumbo, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Malinina et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sedimentary Geology
Abbreviation	Sediment. Geol.
ISSN (print)	0037-0738
Scope	Geology Stratigraphy