How to format your references using the South African Journal of Geology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of Geology. 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

Loder, N. 2000. Unfavourable economics put postdocs across Europe under strain. Nature, 407, 427–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imambekov, A. and Glazman, L.I. 2009. Universal theory of nonlinear Luttinger liquids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323, 228–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grover, T., Sheng, D.N. and Vishwanath, A. 2014. Emergent space-time supersymmetry at the boundary of a topological phase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344, 280–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ursin, R., Jennewein, T., Aspelmeyer, M., Kaltenbaek, R., Lindenthal, M., Walther, P. and Zeilinger, A. 2004. Communications: quantum teleportation across the Danube. Nature, 430, 849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldberger, A.L. and Goldberger, Z.D. 2012. Becoming a Consummate Clinician. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lowry, S.F., Ciocca, R.G., Rettie, C.S. and Vodarsik, M. (eds.) 2005. Learning Surgery: The Surgery Clerkship Manual. New York, NY, Springer, XVIII, 792 p. 96 illuspp.

A chapter in an edited book

Apeldoorn, D. 2015. A Spatio-Temporal Multiagent Simulation Framework for Reusing Agents in Different Kinds of Scenarios. In: J.P. Müller, W. Ketter, G. Kaminka, G. Wagner and N. Bulling (Editors) Multiagent System Technologies: 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28 - 30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 79–97.

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 South African Journal of Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2015.Solar Prominence Looks Just Like The Eiffel Tower. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-prominence-looks-eiffel-tower/ (accessed 30 October 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 1974. Increased Use Of Computer-Output-Microfilm By Federal Agencies Could Result In Savings. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Konzem, S.R. 2017. Tenability and Computability of Generalized Pólya Urns. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Washington, DC, 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

Kishkovsky, S. 2015. Russian Local Elections Draw Charges of Fraud. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Loder, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Loder, 2000; Imambekov and Glazman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Imambekov and Glazman, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ursin et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Geology
Abbreviation	South Afr. J. Geol.
ISSN (print)	1012-0750
ISSN (online)	1996-8590
Scope	Geology

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