How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Geochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Geochemistry. 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

Heine V V (2000) Crystal structure. As weird as they come. Nature 403:836–837

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradshaw W, Holzapfel C (2007) Evolution. Tantalizing timeless. Science 316:1851–1852

A journal article with 3 authors

Chave J, Alonso D, Etienne RS (2006) Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature 441:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Grima B, Lamouroux A, Chélot E, et al (2002) The F-box protein slimb controls the levels of clock proteins period and timeless. Nature 420:178–182

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li C, Lin J (2013) Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Savacı FA (ed) (2006) Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: 14th Turkish Symposium, TAINN 2005, Izmir, Turkey, June 16-17, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rawski M, Tomaszewicz P, Borowik G, Łuba T (2011) 5 Logic Synthesis Method of Digital Circuits Designed for Implementation with Embedded Memory Blocks of FPGAs. In: Adamski M, Barkalov A, Węgrzyn M (eds) Design of Digital Systems and Devices. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 121–144

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 Chinese Journal of Geochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Drugs From Bugs: The Next Blockbuster Medicine Could Be Lurking Inside An Insect. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drugs-from-bugs-the-next-blockbuster-medicine-could-be-lurking-inside-an-insect/. 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 (1986) ADP Acquisition: SEC Needs To Resolve Key Issues Before Proceeding With Its EDGAR System. 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

Edwards DH (2017) Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Shear MD, Thrush G, Haberman M (2017) Trump Response To Violent Rally Shocks His Allies. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heine 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Heine 2000; Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2007)
Three or more authors: (Grima et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Geochemistry
ISSN (print)	1000-9426
ISSN (online)	1993-0364
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