How to format your references using the Geobios citation style

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

Supattapone, S., 2010. Biochemistry. What makes a prion infectious? Science 327, 1091–1092.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mannhart, J., Schlom, D.G., 2010. Oxide interfaces--an opportunity for electronics. Science 327, 1607–1611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martincorena, I., Seshasayee, A.S.N., Luscombe, N.M., 2012. Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy. Nature 485, 95–98.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, X., Shi, Q., Gray, M.R., Xu, C., 2014. New vanadium compounds in Venezuela heavy crude oil detected by positive-ion electrospray ionization fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Sci. Rep. 4, 5373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexander, M., Walkenbach, J., 2010. Excel® Dashboards & Reports. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Noakes, D.L.G., Romero, A., Zhao, Y., Zhou, Y. (Eds.), 2010. Chinese Fishes, Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ki, D.-H., Jung, Y.-D., 2012. Atomic Processes in Dusty Plasmas, in: Shevelko, V., Tawara, H. (Eds.), Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics, Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 103–121.

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 Geobios.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. How We Discovered A Possible Link Between Car Exhausts And Alzheimer’s [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-we-discovered-a-possible-link-between-car-exhausts-and-alzheimers/ (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. Surface Infrastructure: Costs, Financing and Schedules for Large-Dollar Transportation Projects (No. RCED-98-64). 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

Wrobleski, M.M., 2010. The challenge of teen nutrition: An ecological view of socio-cognitive influences on urban, African-American adolescent diet quality (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Stellin, S., 2013. District Judge Upholds Government’s Right to Search Electronics at Border. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Supattapone, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mannhart and Schlom, 2010; Supattapone, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mannhart and Schlom, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geobios
ISSN (print)	0016-6995
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Stratigraphy