How to format your references using the Carbonates and Evaporites citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Carbonates and Evaporites. 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

Del Genio AD (2002) Atmospheric science. The dust settles on water vapor feedback. Science 296:665–666

A journal article with 2 authors

Muijres FT, Dickinson MH (2014) Bird flight: Fly with a little flap from your friends. Nature 505:295–296

A journal article with 3 authors

Van der Burg E, Cass J, Alais D (2014) Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter. Sci Rep 4:5098

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Szénási Á, Pálinkás Z, Zalai M, et al (2014) Short-term effects of different genetically modified maize varieties on arthropod food web properties: an experimental field assessment. Sci Rep 4:5315

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl B, Herrenknecht M, Maidl U, Wehrmeyer G (2011) Maschineller Tunnelbau im Schildvortrieb. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Waseda Y (2011) X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography: Introduction, Examples and Solved Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schumacher R, Seaver LH, Spranger J (2010) Skeletal Dysplasias. In: Seaver LH, Spranger J (eds) Fetal Radiology: A Diagnostic Atlas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–183

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 Carbonates and Evaporites.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Lost Medieval City Discovered On England-Wales Border. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/lost-medieval-city-discovered-on-englandwales-border/. 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 (2001) Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. 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

Garishe SS (2017) Protocol for file sharing in mobile ad hoc networks. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sisario B (2016) ‘We Shall Overcome’ Moves Closer to Copyright Trial. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Del Genio 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Del Genio 2002; Muijres and Dickinson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Muijres and Dickinson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Szénási et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Carbonates and Evaporites
Abbreviation	Carbonates Evaporites
ISSN (print)	0891-2556
ISSN (online)	1878-5212
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology