How to format your references using the Geochemical Transactions citation style

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

Ramirez AP (2007) Applied physics. Oxide electronics emerge. Science 315:1377–1378

A journal article with 2 authors

Henderson GM, Slowey NC (2000) Evidence from U-Th dating against Northern Hemisphere forcing of the penultimate deglaciation. Nature 404:61–66

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusumbe AP, Ramasamy SK, Adams RH (2014) Coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis by a specific vessel subtype in bone. Nature 507:323–328

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu Y, Zhang XH, Ebersole B, et al (2013) Bitter melon extract attenuating hepatic steatosis may be mediated by FGF21 and AMPK/Sirt1 signaling in mice. Sci Rep 3:3142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph C (2013) Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Clark R, Livingstone DW, Smaller H (2012) Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Softic S, Taraghi B, Ebner M, et al (2013) Monitoring Learning Activities in PLE Using Semantic Modelling of Learner Behaviour. In: Holzinger A, Ziefle M, Hitz M, Debevc M (eds) Human Factors in Computing and Informatics: First International Conference, SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 74–90

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 Transactions.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Gold Nanoparticles Could Be Used To Melt Fat. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gold-nanoparticles-could-be-used-melt-fat/. 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 (2017) Public-Safety Broadband Network: FirstNet Has Made Progress Establishing the Network, but Should Address Stakeholder Concerns and Workforce Planning. 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

Gros TR (2009) A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Protess B (2016) MF Global’s Fall May Cost Corzine About $5 Million. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemical Transactions
Abbreviation	Geochem. Trans.
ISSN (online)	1467-4866
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology