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

Naldini, L. (2009). Medicine. A comeback for gene therapy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5954), 805–806.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCarthy, P. M., & Smith, W. A. (2002). Mechanical circulatory support--a long and winding road. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5557), 998–999.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu, H.-W., Park, C.-W., & Ryu, K.-Y. (2014). Disruption of polyubiquitin gene Ubb causes dysregulation of neural stem cell differentiation with premature gliogenesis. Scientific reports, 4, 7026.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Knutti, R., Stocker, T. F., Joos, F., & Plattner, G.-K. (2002). Constraints on radiative forcing and future climate change from observations and climate model ensembles. Nature, 416(6882), 719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet, P. J. (2008). Discrete Wavelet Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chatterji, M., & Zsolnai, L. (Eds.). (2016). Ethical Leadership: Indian and European Spiritual Approaches. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Mattner, S. W. (2006). THE IMPACT OF PATHOGENS ON PLANT INTERFERENCE AND ALLELOPATHY. In INDERJIT & K. G. Mukerji (Eds.), Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases (pp. 79–101). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Hale, T. (2016, September 28). New Genus Of Crab Discovered In A Chinese Pet Shop. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-genus-of-crab-discovered-in-a-chinese-pet-shop/. 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. (1988). NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional Force Balance--Papers for U.S. and Soviet Perspectives Workshops (No. NSIAD-89-23B). 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

Cummins, K. (2015). A Mixed Methods Study on The Leader in Me Process: How Does Fostering Student Leadership Capacity Influence Behavior, Efficacy, and Achievement? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Barron, J. (2017, September 10). Celebrating a Honey Harvest in the Center of Hudson Yards. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Naldini 2009).
This sentence cites two references (McCarthy and Smith 2002; Naldini 2009).

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

Two authors: (McCarthy and Smith 2002)
Three or more authors: (Knutti et al. 2002)

About the journal

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