How to format your references using the Seismological Research Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seismological Research Letters (SRL). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Wakeley, J. (2008). Complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees, Nature 452, no. 7184, E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ting, A. Y., and D. Endy (2002). Signal transduction. Decoding NF-kappaB signaling, Science 298, no. 5596, 1189–1190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vogel, E. K., A. W. McCollough, and M. G. Machizawa (2005). Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory, Nature 438, no. 7067, 500–503.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Peña, M., L. L. Bonatti, M. Nespor, and J. Mehler (2002). Signal-driven computations in speech processing, Science 298, no. 5593, 604–607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, D. R. J. M., and D. M. Z. Al-Ani (2011). Temporomandibular Disorders, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Mamon, R. S., and R. J. Elliott (Editors) (2014). Hidden Markov Models in Finance: Further Developments and Applications, Volume II, Springer US, Boston, MA, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Cho, J. R., J. Park, and Y. Sano (2013). Edge-disjoint Decompositions of Complete Multipartite Graphs into Gregarious Long Cycles, in Computational Geometry and Graphs: Thailand-Japan Joint Conference, TJJCCGG 2012, Bangkok, Thailand, December 6-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers J. Akiyama, M. Kano, and T. Sakai(Editors), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 57–63.

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 Seismological Research Letters.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016). The Global Impact Of Air Conditioning: Big And Getting Bigger, IFLScience: <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-global-impact-of-air-conditioning-big-and-getting-bigger/> (accessed October 30, 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 (1978). GAO Guide to Project Planning and Management, 090882, 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

Zaegel, B. M. (2012). An Evaluation of the School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Check In/Check Out Behavior Education Program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Ryerson, J. (2017). University Presses, BR27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wakeley, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ting and Endy, 2002; Wakeley, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ting and Endy, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Peña et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Seismological Research Letters
ISSN (print)	0895-0695
ISSN (online)	1938-2057
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