How to format your references using the Geochronometria citation style

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

Diamond J, 2010, Social science. The benefits of multilingualism. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330(6002): 332–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imondi R and Thomas JB, 2003, Neuroscience. The ups and downs of Wnt signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5652): 1903–1904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun Q, Haynes KF and Zhou X, 2013, Differential undertaking response of a lower termite to congeneric and conspecific corpses. Scientific reports 3: 1650.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rieseberg LH, Raymond O, Rosenthal DM, Lai Z, Livingstone K, Nakazato T, Durphy JL, Schwarzbach AE, Donovan LA and Lexer C, 2003, Major ecological transitions in wild sunflowers facilitated by hybridization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5637): 1211–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams T and Turton V, 2014, Trading Economics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ehrenfeld JM, Urman RD and Segal S (eds), 2016, Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Álvarez P, Hernández S, Fabra J and Ezpeleta J, 2016, Cost Estimation for the Provisioning of Computing Resources to Execute Bag-of-Tasks Applications in the Amazon Cloud. In: Altmann J, Silaghi GC and Rana OF (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 65–77.

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 Geochronometria.

Blog post

Hamilton K, 2017, America’s Nobel Success Is The Story Of Immigrants. 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, 2007, Transportation Disadvantaged: Progress in Implementing the New Freedom Program Has Been Limited, and Better Monitoring Procedures Would Help Ensure Program Funds Are Used as Intended. 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

Flores D, 2014, The EastSide Café: A liberated learning zone. 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

Goldstein J and Schwirtz M, 2013, U.S. Accuses 2 Rabbis of Kidnapping Husbands for a Fee. New York Times, 11 October, page A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Diamond, 2010; Imondi and Thomas, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Imondi and Thomas, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rieseberg et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geochronometria
Abbreviation	Geochronometria
ISSN (print)	1733-8387
ISSN (online)	1897-1695
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)