How to format your references using the Sedimentology citation style

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

Ralph, D.C. (2011) The electromotive force of MnAs nanoparticles. Nature, 474, E6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cook, E.H., Jr and Scherer, S.W. (2008) Copy-number variations associated with neuropsychiatric conditions. Nature, 455, 919–923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buehler, M.J., Abraham, F.F. and Gao, H. (2003) Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature, 426, 141–146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Girart, J.M., Beltrán, M.T., Zhang, Q., Rao, R. and Estalella, R. (2009) Magnetic fields in the formation of massive stars. Science, 324, 1408–1411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jackson, J. (2012) Political Oratory and Cartooning. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kolossa, D. and Häb-Umbach, R. (eds) (2011) Robust Speech Recognition of Uncertain or Missing Data: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVIII, 380 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ju, H., Yang, X., Dou, H. and Song, J. (2014) Variable Precision Multigranulation Rough Set and Attributes Reduction. In: Transactions on Rough Sets XVIII (Ed. J.F. Peters, A. Skowron, T. Li, Y. Yang, J. Yao, and H.S. Nguyen), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 52–68.

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 Sedimentology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014) Crowd Sourced Science To Revive A Space Probe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/crowd-sourced-science-revive-space-probe/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1997) School Finance: State Efforts to Reduce Funding Gaps Between Poor and Wealthy Districts. 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

Chappel, A.M. (2012) A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Conte, L. (2011) Scouting Report. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ralph, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cook & Scherer, 2008; Ralph, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cook & Scherer, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Girart et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sedimentology
ISSN (print)	0037-0746
ISSN (online)	1365-3091
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