How to format your references using the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). 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

Miralda-Escudé, J., 2001, Cosmology. Probing matter at the lowest densities, Science, 293, no. 5532, 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grewal, S. I. S., and D. Moazed, 2003, Heterochromatin and epigenetic control of gene expression, Science, 301, no. 5634, 798–802.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buxbaum, A. R., B. Wu, and R. H. Singer, 2014, Single β-actin mRNA detection in neurons reveals a mechanism for regulating its translatability, Science, 343, no. 6169, 419–422.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Katra, I., L. Arotsker, H. Krasnov, A. Zaritsky, A. Kushmaro, and E. Ben-Dov, 2014, Richness and diversity in dust stormborne biomes at the southeast mediterranean, Sci. Rep., 4, 5265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morton, A., K. Mengersen, M. Whitby, and G. Playford, 2013, Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.), 2013, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013: New Domains and Methodologies, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics.

A chapter in an edited book

Rubio, E., and O. Castillo, 2015, A New Proposal for a Granular Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm, in Design of Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Nature-Inspired Optimization P. Melin, O. Castillo, and J. Kacprzyk (Editors), Springer International Publishing, Cham, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 47–57.

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 the Seismological Society of America.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016, The Best 2016 Supermoon Photo We’ve Seen Yet Took Several Years Of Planning, IFLScience: <https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-best-2016-supermoon-photo-weve-seen-yet-took-several-years-of-planning/> (accessed October 30, 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, 1995, Federal Lands: Information on the Use and Impact of Off-Highway Vehicles, RCED-95-209, 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

Saurage-Altenloh, S. M., 2017, The Measured Influence of Supplier CSR on Brand Performance Expectations in B2B Relationships, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Walsh, M. W., 2012, Consequences in a Fiscal Plan, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miralda-Escudé, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Miralda-Escudé, 2001; Grewal and Moazed, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Grewal and Moazed, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Katra et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
ISSN (print)	0037-1106
ISSN (online)	1943-3573
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