How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 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 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

Callaway, E. 2013. Transmission: Control issues. Nature 502, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sontheimer, E.J., and Carthew, R.W. 2004. Molecular biology. Argonaute journeys into the heart of RISC. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305, 1409–1410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bose, H.S., Lingappa, V.R., and Miller, W.L. 2002. Rapid regulation of steroidogenesis by mitochondrial protein import. Nature 417, 87–91.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sarin, K.Y., Cheung, P., Gilison, D., Lee, E., Tennen, R.I., Wang, E., Artandi, M.K., Oro, A.E., and Artandi, S.E. 2005. Conditional telomerase induction causes proliferation of hair follicle stem cells. Nature 436, 1048–1052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Botsai, E., Kaneshiro, C., Cuccia, P., and Pajo, H. 2010. The Architect’s Guide to Preventing Water Infiltration (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Han, F.X. 2007. Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Arid Environments (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Hoque, M.E., Yeasin, M., and Louwerse, M.M. 2006. Robust Recognition of Emotion from Speech. In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2006. Proceedings, J. Gratch, M. Young, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, and P. Olivier, eds. (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), pp. 42–53.

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 Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. Heart Attack Deaths More Likely At Christmas (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 2005. Credit Reporting Literacy: Consumers Understood the Basics but Could Benefit from Targeted Educational Efforts (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

Shaw, R.M. 2012. The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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

Gustines, G.G. 2017. On Creating Black Superheroes. New York Times D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Callaway, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sontheimer and Carthew, 2004; Callaway, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sontheimer and Carthew, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sarin et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Earth Sci.
ISSN (print)	0812-0099
ISSN (online)	1440-0952
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) General Environmental Science