How to format your references using the Geological Magazine citation style

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

King, D.A. 2004. The scientific impact of nations. Nature 430(6997), 311–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell, A.C. & Felsenfeld, G. 2000. Methylation of a CTCF-dependent boundary controls imprinted expression of the Igf2 gene. Nature 405(6785), 482–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, F.G., Davies, R. & Lyne, A. 2012. Bernard Lovell (1913-2012). Nature 488(7413), 592.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wang, J.-W., Howson, J.M., Ghansah, T., Desponts, C., Ninos, J.M., May, S.L., Nguyen, K.H.T., Toyama-Sorimachi, N. & Kerr, W.G. 2002. Influence of SHIP on the NK repertoire and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5562), 2094–2097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety 2010. A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,p.

An edited book

Kearns, A.E. & Wermers, R.A. eds. 2016. Hyperparathyroidism: A Clinical Casebook 1st ed. 2016., Cham: Springer International Publishing, XIV, 197 p. 19 illus., 14 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Plumley, J. 2016. Perception on Design Quality within the New Mega Townships of India. In The Towers of New Capital: Mega Townships in India (ed. P. Tiwari), pp. 45–49. , London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Geological Magazine.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015. New Species Of Snake Discovered In Western Australia. 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 2011. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Improve Its Independent Acquisition Reviews, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office,p.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ward, S. 2009. Historiography, prophecy, and literature: “Divina retribución” and its underlying ideological agenda. Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University,p.

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

Vecsey, G. 2009. A Different World Is Awaiting the U.S. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (King, 2004; Bell & Felsenfeld, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bell & Felsenfeld, 2000)
Three authors: (Smith, Davies & Lyne, 2012)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geological Magazine
Abbreviation	Geol. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0016-7568
ISSN (online)	1469-5081
Scope	Geology