How to format your references using the Applied Clay Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Clay Science. 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

Jauch, R., 2005. Scientists and societies. Horizons in molecular biology. Nature 433, 904.

A journal article with 2 authors

Auer, S., Frenkel, D., 2001. Prediction of absolute crystal-nucleation rate in hard-sphere colloids. Nature 409, 1020–1023.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J., Bai, L., Wang, M.D., 2013. Transcription under torsion. Science 340, 1580–1583.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Armani, D.K., Kippenberg, T.J., Spillane, S.M., Vahala, K.J., 2003. Ultra-high-Q toroid microcavity on a chip. Nature 421, 925–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi, D., Norris, M., 2004. Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sadurski, W., Czarnota, A., Krygier, M. (Eds.), 2006. Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, Z., 2005. Routing in 2-D Meshes: A Tutorial, in: Pan, Y., Chen, D., Guo, M., Cao, J., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Third International Symposium, ISPA 2005, Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 19–20.

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 Applied Clay Science.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2014. Watch A Man Walk On Lava [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-a-man-walk-on-lava/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. Student Financial Aid: Use of Middleware for Systems Integration Holds Promise (No. GAO-02-7). 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

Abraham, S.R., 2015. Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults (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

Borden, S., 2016. How the Game Became One With the Rocket’s Red Glare. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jauch, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Auer and Frenkel, 2001; Jauch, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Auer and Frenkel, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Armani et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Clay Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Clay Sci.
ISSN (print)	0169-1317
ISSN (online)	1872-9053
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geology