How to format your references using the Geochemistry citation style

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

Speirs, V., 2012. Perspective: Not just for women. Nature 485, S66.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moar, W.J., Anilkumar, K.J., 2007. Plant science. The power of the pyramid. Science 318, 1561–1562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blois, J.L., McGuire, J.L., Hadly, E.A., 2010. Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change. Nature 465, 771–774.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakatani, K., Ishikawa, H., Aono, S., Mizutani, Y., 2014. Identification of essential histidine residues involved in heme binding and Hemozoin formation in heme detoxification protein from Plasmodium falciparum. Sci. Rep. 4, 6137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke, D., Peters, M., Glasser, D., Hildebrandt, D., 2012. Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bush, M.B., 2007. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change, Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Leong, W., Wang, D.-A., 2014. Engineering Biomaterials for Anchorage-Dependent and Non-anchorage-Dependent Therapeutic Cell Delivery in Translational Medicine, in: Cai, W. (Ed.), Engineering in Translational Medicine. Springer, London, pp. 103–131.

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 Geochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why Ocean Energy Needs A Cyberinfrastructure To Thrive [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-ocean-energy-needs-cyberinfrastructure-thrive/ (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, 1979. Evaluation and the Research Process (No. 094329). 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

Nersisyan, H.A., 2017. Armenian American Student Perceptions of Campus Climate: Examining the Conditions That Support or Inhibit Their College Experience (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Liptak, A., Walsh, M.W., 2016. Justices Reject Puerto Rico Law in Case on Restructuring Debt. 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 (Speirs, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Moar and Anilkumar, 2007; Speirs, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Moar and Anilkumar, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nakatani et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochemistry
ISSN (print)	1611-5864
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