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

Levin, B. R. (2004). Microbiology. Noninherited resistance to antibiotics, Science 305, no. 5690, 1578–1579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Promislow, D. E. L., and M. Kaeberlein (2014). Development. Chemical warfare in the battle of the sexes, Science 343, no. 6170, 491–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amselem, E., M. Sadiq, and M. Bourennane (2013). Experimental bound entanglement through a Pauli channel, Sci. Rep. 3, 1966.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Peer, D., E. J. Park, Y. Morishita, C. V. Carman, and M. Shimaoka (2008). Systemic leukocyte-directed siRNA delivery revealing cyclin D1 as an anti-inflammatory target, Science 319, no. 5863, 627–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Serval, J.-F., and J.-P. Tranié (2014). The Monetary System, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pupolin, S. (Editor) (2007). Wireless Communications 2007 CNIT Thyrrenian Symposium, Springer US, Boston, MA, Signals and Communication Technology.

A chapter in an edited book

Shmaliy, Y. (2007). LTI Systems in the Frequency Domain (Transform Analysis), in Continuous-Time Systems Y. Shmaliy(Editor), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 239–347.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). There’s No Such Thing As Reptiles Any More – And Here’s Why, IFLScience: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-s-no-such-thing-reptiles-any-more-and-here-s-why/> (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 (1994). Research Fleet Modernization: NOAA Needs to Consider Alternatives to the Acquisition of New Vessels, RCED-94-170, 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

Cox, T. M. (2010). Is the Procurement Integrity Act “Important” Enough for the Mandatory Disclosure Rule?: A Look at the Procurement Integrity Act and the Case for its Inclusion in the Mandatory Disclosure Rule, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Cooper, M. (2017). German Home For Alan Gilbert, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levin, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Levin, 2004; Promislow and Kaeberlein, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Promislow and Kaeberlein, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Peer et al., 2008)

About the journal

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