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

Zarin, D.J. (2012) Atmospheric science. Carbon from tropical deforestation. Science, 336, 1518–1519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peale, S.J. and Lee, M.H. (2002) A primordial origin of the Laplace relation among the Galilean satellites. Science, 298, 593–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howell, K., White, J.G. and Hobert, O. (2015) Spatiotemporal control of a novel synaptic organizer molecule. Nature, 523, 83–87.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ogawa, M., Yoshimori, T., Suzuki, T., Sagara, H., Mizushima, N. and Sasakawa, C. (2005) Escape of intracellular Shigella from autophagy. Science, 307, 727–731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burton, E. (2016) Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Baulieu, L., Boer, J. de, Pioline, B. and Rabinovici, E. (eds) (2006) String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to Cosmology: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to Cosmology Cargèse, France 7–19 June 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XII, 404 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ki, D.-H. and Jung, Y.-D. (2012) Atomic Processes in Dusty Plasmas. In: Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics (Ed. V. Shevelko and H. Tawara), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 103–121.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016) Beware Of Undercooked Chicken Livers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/beware-of-undercooked-chicken-livers/. 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 (2010) Contracting Strategies: Better Data and Management Needed to Leverage Value of Interagency and Enterprisewide Contracts. 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

Rhoads, E.P. (2006) Knowledge management practices in U.S. federal agencies: The catalyst for E-Government transformation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Tankersley, J. (2017) Federal Debt Is Not Reduced By Gains in Market. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zarin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Peale & Lee, 2002; Zarin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peale & Lee, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ogawa et al., 2005)

About the journal

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