How to format your references using the Clays and Clay Minerals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clays and Clay Minerals. 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

Poste, G. (2011) Bring on the biomarkers. Nature, 469, 156–157.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, D.J. and Rosswog, S. (2006) Producing ultrastrong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312, 719–722.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, H., Opresko, P., and Myong, S. (2014) Single-molecule real-time detection of telomerase extension activity. Scientific reports, 4, 6391.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Fan, H., Lu, Y., Stump, A., Reed, S.T., Baer, T., Schunk, R., Perez-Luna, V., V., Lopez, G.P., and Brinker, C.J. (2000) Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures. Nature, 405, 56–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W. and Wan, M. (2016) Milling Simulation. P. in.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

D’Odorico, P. and Porporato, A. (eds.). (2006) Dryland Ecohydrology. P. in.: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VII, 341 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, H.J., Lee, Y., and Kim, H.-H. (2013) Intracellular Calcium Signaling for Osteoclast Differentiation. Pp. 23–30 in: Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems (Y. Choi, editor). Springer, New York, NY.

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 Clays and Clay Minerals.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016) A British Man May Have Been Cured Of HIV. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-british-man-may-have-been-cured-of-hiv/> (30 October 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. (1979) Correctional Institutions Can Do More To Improve the Employability of Offenders. 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

Finnegan, R.J. (2010) Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Stewart, J.B. (2016) Trump-Size Idea for a New President: Build Stuff. 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 (Poste, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Price and Rosswog, 2006; Poste, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Price and Rosswog, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Fan et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clays and Clay Minerals
Abbreviation	Clays Clay Miner.
ISSN (print)	0009-8604
Scope	Soil Science Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geochemistry and Petrology Water Science and Technology