How to format your references using the Geochemical Perspectives Letters citation style

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

Hellemans, A. (2000) Antihydrogen: through the looking glass. Nature 406, 556–558.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, L., Travis, J. (2012) Mysteries of the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338, 30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoder, B.L., Bisson, R., Beck, R.D. (2010) Steric effects in the chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on Ni(100). Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, 553–556.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Bourdon, B., Ribe, N.M., Stracke, A., Saal, A.E., Turner, S.P. (2006) Insights into the dynamics of mantle plumes from uranium-series geochemistry. Nature 444, 713–717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cicek, V. (2013) Cathodic Protection. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reynolds, M., Holwell, S. (eds) (2010) Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Servetti, A., Masala, E., Bucciol, P., De Martin, J.C. (2007) Variable Time-Scale Multimedia Streaming Over 802.11 Inter-Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks. In: Abut, H., Hansen, J.H.L., Takeda, K. (eds) Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International Standards. Springer US, Boston, MA, 47–57.

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 Geochemical Perspectives Letters.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015) Birds Feast on Bugs Living in Sloth Fur. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 (1982) Aviation Safety Hazards. 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

Kim, G. (2013) Development of a nutrition-based curriculum for farm-to-school programs for the fourth and fifth grades. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Billard, M. (2011) In Schools, Yoga Without the Spiritual. New York Times, 9 October, page MB4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hellemans, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hellemans, 2000; Roberts and Travis, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Travis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bourdon et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemical Perspectives Letters
ISSN (print)	2410-339X
ISSN (online)	2410-3403
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