How to format your references using the Gold Bulletin citation style

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

Langenberg H (2002) Climate of care for a changing world. Nature 417:4–6

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde JS, Linn MC (2006) Diversity. Gender similarities in mathematics and science. Science 314:599–600

A journal article with 3 authors

Hong J-W, Hendrix DA, Levine MS (2008) Shadow enhancers as a source of evolutionary novelty. Science 321:1314

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Verbiscer A, French R, Showalter M, Helfenstein P (2007) Enceladus: cosmic graffiti artist caught in the act. Science 315:815

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier J, Owen A, Kwade A, Van de Voorde M (2017) Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Duhovnik J (2015) Space Modeling with SolidWorks and NX. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Beh AL, Fleet GH, Prakitchaiwattana C, Heard GM (2006) Evaluation of molecular methods for the analysis of yeasts in foods and beverages. In: Hocking AD, Pitt JI, Samson RA, Thrane U (eds) Advances in Food Mycology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 69–106

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 Gold Bulletin.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Parasitic Fungus Infects Cells By Fusing Them Together For Easier Travel. In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) ADP Contracts: Army Needs to Correct Budget Disclosure Deficiencies. 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

Kane BH (2017) A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Greenhouse L (2005) Supreme Court Takes Up 2 Cases Challenging Powers of U.S. Regulators to Protect Wetlands. New York Times A14

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	Gold Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2364-821X
ISSN (online)	2190-7579
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry General Materials Science