How to format your references using the Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 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

Dickson J. A. D. (2002) Fossil echinoderms as monitor of the Mg/Ca ratio of Phanerozoic oceans. Science 298, 1222–1224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeates T. O. and Beeby M. (2006) Biochemistry. Proteins in a small world. Science 314, 1882–1883.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huxter J., Burgess N. and O’Keefe J. (2003) Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature 425, 828–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nguyen V. T., Kiss T., Michels A. A. and Bensaude O. (2001) 7SK small nuclear RNA binds to and inhibits the activity of CDK9/cyclin T complexes. Nature 414, 322–325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin D. W. and Senior B. A. (2009) Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Garbey M., Bass B. L., Berceli S., Collet C. and Cerveri P. eds. (2014) Computational Surgery and Dual Training: Computing, Robotics and Imaging., Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgelt C. and Picado-Muiño D. (2014) Simple Pattern Spectrum Estimation for Fast Pattern Filtering with CoCoNAD. In Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIII: 13th International Symposium, IDA 2014, Leuven, Belgium, October 30 – November 1, 2014. Proceedings (eds. H. Blockeel, M. van Leeuwen, and V. Vinciotti). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 37–48.

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 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Blog post

Carpineti A. (2017) The Tech For NASA’s Dark Energy Observatory Moves To Test Phase. 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 (1994) Federal Research: Interim Report on the Pilot Technology Access Program., 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

Zhang Y. (2017) A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Kenigsberg B. (2017) Alina. New York Times, C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson, 2002; Yeates and Beeby, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Yeates and Beeby, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nguyen et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Abbreviation	Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0016-7037
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology