How to format your references using the Bulletin of Geosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin 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 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

Cyranoski, D. 2003. Taiwan: Biotech vision. Nature 421(6923), 672–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, G.L. & Vance, D. 2006. Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature 444(7121), 918–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pendry, J.B., Schurig, D. & Smith, D.R. 2006. Controlling electromagnetic fields. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312(5781), 1780–1782.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pierce-Shimomura, J.T., Faumont, S., Gaston, M.R., Pearson, B.J. & Lockery, S.R. 2001. The homeobox gene lim-6 is required for distinct chemosensory representations in C. elegans. Nature 410(6829), 694–698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bailly, P. 2013. Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA.

An edited book

Bennedsen, J., Caspersen, M.E. & Kölling, M. (eds). 2008. Reflections on the Teaching of Programming: Methods and Implementations. X, 261 p pp. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Page, D. & Smart, N. 2014. Demystifying Web-Search: the Mathematics of PageRank. In: Smart, N. (ed.) What Is Computer Science?: An Information Security Perspective. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, 99–124.

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 Bulletin of Geosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Domestic Cat Or Lost Lynx? On The Trail Of The ‘Paris Tiger’. IFLScience. World Wide Web Address: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/domestic-cat-or-lost-lynx-trail-paris-tiger/

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. 1972. Fundamental Changes Needed To Achieve Effective Enforcement of Radio Communication Regulations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, B-159895.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bratton, E.W. 2012. Clinical Management and Outcomes of Patients in the Duke Cryptococcosis Clinical Cohort, 1996 - 2009. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Brantley, B. 2017. Theater; The Terrain Where Generations Meet. New York Times, AR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2003; Foster & Vance 2006).

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

Two authors: (Foster & Vance 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pierce-Shimomura et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Geosciences
ISSN (print)	1214-1119
ISSN (online)	1802-8225
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