How to format your references using the China Geology citation style

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

Yang, S., 2015. Self-assembled materials. Supramolecular lattices from tetrahedral nanobuilding blocks. Science 348, 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pagès, V., Fuchs, R.P., 2003. Uncoupling of leading- and lagging-strand DNA replication during lesion bypass in vivo. Science 300, 1300–1303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilkinson, J.J., Simmons, S.F., Stoffell, B., 2013. How metalliferous brines line Mexican epithermal veins with silver. Sci. Rep. 3, 2057.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keiling, A., Wygant, J.R., Cattell, C.A., Mozer, F.S., Russell, C.T., 2003. The global morphology of wave Poynting flux: powering the aurora. Science 299, 383–386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J., 2010. John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel® 2010 Tips & Tricks. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Haim, A., 2013. Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Dallai, A., Boni, E., Francalanci, L., Tortoli, P., 2011. Vector Doppler Method Based on an Automatic Transverse Angle Tracking Procedure, in: André, M.P., Jones, J.P., Lee, H. (Eds.), Acoustical Imaging: Volume 30, Acoustical Imaging. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 39–45.

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 China Geology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Successfully [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-successfully/ (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, 1998. Tax Systems Modernization: Blueprint Is a Good Start But Not Yet Sufficiently Complete to Build or Acquire Systems (No. AIMD/GGD-98-54). 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

Guedez, A., 2017. Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Karr, M., 2010. JAN. 15, 2006: Thanks for The Memoirs. New York Times F15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yang, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pagès and Fuchs, 2003; Yang, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pagès and Fuchs, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Keiling et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Geology
ISSN (print)	2096-5192
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