How to format your references using the Swiss Journal of Geosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 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

Silverberg, R. (2000). Pluto story. Nature, 403(6768), 367.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishioka, K., & Reinberg, D. (2001). Transcription. Switching partners in a regulatory tango. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5551), 2497–2498.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, H., Imura, J.-I., & Aihara, K. (2013). Chaotic Ising-like dynamics in traffic signals. Scientific reports, 3, 1127.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Negi, J., Matsuda, O., Nagasawa, T., Oba, Y., Takahashi, H., Kawai-Yamada, M., et al. (2008). CO2 regulator SLAC1 and its homologues are essential for anion homeostasis in plant cells. Nature, 452(7186), 483–486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, F. J., & Kothari, V. (2008). Introduction to Securitization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Giaquinta, M. (2007). Mathematical Analysis: Linear and Metric Structures and Continuity. (G. Modica, Ed.). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Schein, M. (2009). Rational Diagnostic Procedures. In M. Schein, P. Rogers, & A. Assalia (Eds.), Schein’s Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons (pp. 25–31). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Swiss Journal of Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, April 22). What Would The Earth Look Like If All The Ice Melted? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2005). Federal Student Loan Repayment Program: OPM Could Build on Its Efforts to Help Agencies Administer the Program and Measure Results (No. GAO-05-762). 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

Colna, K. E. (2017). Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Feeney, K. (2006, July 16). QUICK BITE/Elizabeth; Warming Up to Sausage and Dogs. New York Times, p. 14NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Silverberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nishioka and Reinberg 2001; Silverberg 2000).

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

Two authors: (Nishioka and Reinberg 2001)
Three or more authors: (Negi et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Swiss Journal of Geosciences
Abbreviation	Swiss J. Geosci.
ISSN (print)	1661-8726
ISSN (online)	1661-8734
Scope	Geology