How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Volcanology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Volcanology. 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

Sánchez-Lavega A. How long is the day on Saturn? Science. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1223–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devos DP, Reynaud EG. Evolution. Intermediate steps. Science. 2010 Nov 26;330(6008):1187–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang F, Lin J-S, Liu K. Steric control of the reaction of CH stretch-excited CHD3 with chlorine atom. Science. 2011 Feb 18;331(6019):900–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Popov VL, Voll L, Li Q, Chai YS, Popov M. Generalized law of friction between elastomers and differently shaped rough bodies. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jan 17;4:3750.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon MK, Lee D, Martin WL, Tsou H, Yan T-Y. Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep Space Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Tannier E, editor. Comparative Genomics: International Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2010, Ottawa, Canada, October 9-11, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheth S, Desai AP. Pyloric Stenosis. In: Guandalini S, Dhawan A, Branski D, editors. Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide to Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 35–9.

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 Journal of Applied Volcanology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Gene-Stimulating Molecules Rescue Mice From Drug-Induced Liver Damage [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-stimulating-molecules-rescue-mice-drug-induced-liver-damage/

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. Transportation Security Administration: High-Level Attention Needed to Strengthen Acquisition Function. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-544.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrada MI. A community risk assessment of the 90806 zip code [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Johnston K. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2011 Apr 20;A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Lavega 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Devos and Reynaud 2010; Sánchez-Lavega 2005).

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

Two authors: (Devos and Reynaud 2010)
Three or more authors: (Popov et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Volcanology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Volcanol.
ISSN (online)	2191-5040
Scope