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

Kysar, D. (2011) Supreme Court ruling is good, bad and ugly. Nature, 474, 421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Borgne, M. and Shaw, A.S. (2013) Immunology. Do T cells have a cilium? Science, 342, 1177–1178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonasio, R., Tu, S. and Reinberg, D. (2010) Molecular signals of epigenetic states. Science, 330, 612–616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Helenius, J., Ng, D.T.W., Marolda, C.L., Walter, P., Valvano, M.A. and Aebi, M. (2002) Translocation of lipid-linked oligosaccharides across the ER membrane requires Rft1 protein. Nature, 415, 447–450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mansour, M., Wilhite, R. and Rowe, J. (2017) Guide to Ruminant Anatomy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cristofaro, E.D. and Murdoch, S.J. (eds) (2014) Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 14th International Symposium, PETS 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 16-18, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 333 p. 100 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sahayaraj, K. and Balasubramanian, R. (2016) Gut Enzyme Profile. In: Artificial Rearing of Reduviid Predators for Pest Management (Ed. R. Balasubramanian), Springer, Singapore, 103–120.

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 Sedimentology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) 3,500-Year-Old Golden Rings Tell Story Of The War-Riddled Rise Of Greek Civilization. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/3500yearold-golden-rings-story-warriddles-rise-greek-civilization/. 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 (2011) International Space Station (ISS) - Ongoing Assessments for Life Extension Appear to be Supported. 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

Coggin, L.L. (2014) Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Wagner, J. (2016) Indians Get Contributions and Confidence From Unexpected Source. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kysar, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kysar, 2011; Le Borgne & Shaw, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Le Borgne & Shaw, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Helenius et al., 2002)

About the journal

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