How to format your references using the AAPG Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AAPG Bulletin. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Burns, J. A., 2010, The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler: Nature, v. 466, no. 7306, p. 575–584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roach, M., and H. Sauermann, 2015, ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Founders and joiners: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 348, no. 6240, p. 1200–1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, K. J., A. Cooper, and M. J. Phillips, 2015, Comment on “Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds”: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 349, no. 6255, p. 1460.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, X., R. Graeff, Q. Xie, K. L. Gamble, T. Mori, and C. H. Johnson, 2009, Comment on “The Arabidopsis circadian clock incorporates a cADPR-based feedback loop”: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 326, no. 5950, p. 230; author reply 230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maré, J.-C., 2016, Aerospace Actuators 1: Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kreiss, G., P. Lötstedt, A. Målqvist, and M. Neytcheva (eds.), 2010, Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications 2009: Proceedings of ENUMATH 2009, the 8th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Uppsala, July 2009: Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, XVIII, 850 p. 240 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Chniter, H., M. Khalgui, and F. Jarray, 2016, Combinatorial Optimization Approach for Feasible Low-Power and Real-Time Flexible OS Tasks, in J. Filipe, O. Gusikhin, K. Madani, and J. Sasiadek, eds., Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: 11th International Conference, ICINCO 2014 Vienna, Austria, September 2-4, 2014 Revised Selected Papers: Cham, Springer International Publishing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, p. 59–77.

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 AAPG Bulletin.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016, Norwegian Governments Votes To Go Carbon Neutral By 2030: IFLScience.

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, 2014, Surface Transportation: Department of Transportation Should Measure the Overall Performance and Outcomes of the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program, GAO-14-766: 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

Adrian, D. E., 2009, School scheduling models and the achievement of at-risk students: A causal-comparative study, Doctoral dissertation: Phoenix, AZ, University of Phoenix.

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

LaFRANIERE, S., D. Porat, and A. Armendariz, 2016, Unending but Unheard, the Echo of Gun Violence: p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burns, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Burns, 2010; Roach and Sauermann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roach and Sauermann, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	AAPG Bulletin
Abbreviation	Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0149-1423
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry and Petrology Geology Energy Engineering and Power Technology Fuel Technology