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

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

Phillips R (2013) In retrospect: The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Nature 504:30–31

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouchon M, Vallée M (2003) Observation of long supershear rupture during the magnitude 8.1 Kunlunshan earthquake. Science 301:824–826

A journal article with 3 authors

Rauzi M, Lenne P-F, Lecuit T (2010) Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature 468:1110–1114

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen Z, Xu Z, Sun S, et al (2014) TGF-β1, IL-6, and TNF-α in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid: useful markers for lung cancer? Sci Rep 4:5595

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin RG, Varadarajan MD FACC P (2014) Echocardiography Board Review. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Laing NG (ed) (2008) The Sarcomere and Skeletal Muscle Disease. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Detroux T, Renson L, Masset L, Kerschen G (2016) The Harmonic Balance Method for Bifurcation Analysis of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems. In: Kerschen G (ed) Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–82

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 Volcanology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Two Comets For New Year’s Eve. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-comets-for-new-years-eve/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) Charter Schools: Recent Experiences in Accessing Federal Funds. 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

Beattie LJ (2013) Meeting the Needs of Low Income Students. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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 GG (2010) Hey, Archie! Want to Build An Empire? New York Times BU1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Phillips 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bouchon and Vallée 2003; Phillips 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bouchon and Vallée 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Volcanology
Abbreviation	Bull. Volcanol.
ISSN (print)	0258-8900
ISSN (online)	1432-0819
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology