How to format your references using the Chemie der Erde citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemie der Erde. 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

Dauphas, N., 2005. The U/Th production ratio and the age of the Milky Way from meteorites and Galactic halo stars. Nature 435, 1203–1205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson, E.C., Braun, P.V., 2007. Chemistry. Enhancing colloids through the surface. Science 318, 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Song, K., Hase, W.L., 2002. A SN2 reaction that avoids its deep potential energy minimum. Science 296, 875–878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bai, Y., Han, X., Zheng, X.-C., Qiao, L., 2013. Both high reliability and giant electrocaloric strength in BaTiO₃ ceramics. Sci. Rep. 3, 2895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge, D., 2010. Excel® Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Buttà, P., 2015. Mathematical Models of Viscous Friction, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Arrigo, A.-P., 2007. Anti-apoptotic, Tumorigenic and Metastatic Potential of Hsp27 (HspB1) and αB-crystallin (HspB5): Emerging Targets for the Development of New Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Strategies, in: Calderwood, S.K., Sherman, M.Y., Ciocca, D.R. (Eds.), Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer, Heat Shock Proteins. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 73–92.

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 Chemie der Erde.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. We’re In Danger Of Losing Emperor Penguins As They Can’t Adapt To Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/were-in-danger-of-losing-emperor-penguins-as-they-cant-adapt-to-climate-change/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Index Digest of the Published Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volumes 66-70, September 1991 (No. 156871). 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

Moreno, S., 2009. Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. When Loss Means Disappointment, Not Disaster. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dauphas, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dauphas, 2005; Nelson and Braun, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nelson and Braun, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bai et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemie der Erde
Abbreviation	Chem. Erde
ISSN (print)	0009-2819
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics